Miguel E. Rentería, PhD

Miguel Rentería leads the Computational Neurogenomics Lab in the Mental Health & Neuroscience Program at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. He is the recipient of a prestigious Al & Val Rosenstrauss Fellowship from the Rebecca L. Cooper Medical Research Foundation, and an honorary Global Atlantic Fellow of the Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco.

He holds a degree in Genomic Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in Human Genetics from The University of Queensland. Previously, he was also an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development Fellow, which enabled him to conduct postdoctoral training at the APDA Center for Advanced Parkinson’s Research in the Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in the United States.

Miguel has received several accolades, including the 2021 Enrico Greppi International Migraine Research Award, a Chevening scholarship, and honorary membership in Mexico’s National System of Investigators.