!1040! Idoia Gomez Paramio is the Orphanet UK and Ireland Project Coordinator/ Manager. She is responsible for all aspects of the "Orphanet project":http://www.orpha.net, a Europe-wide initiative to raise awareness and improve the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases. Idoia studied Biological Sciences at The University of Heidelberg in Germany and at The University of Salamanca in Spain, where she graduated in 2000. She then studied Biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich and at The University of Salamanca and obtained her second MSc in 2001. After completing a research project at the GSF in Munich she completed her PhD in Molecular Biology which focussed on the repair of DNA. Idoia then worked for two years at Applied Biosystems in the UK, France and Italy before joining the Nowgen team. 39 2008-12-09T10:54:47+00:00 --- !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess role: Orphanet Project Co-ordinator telephone: 0161 276 3214 email: idoia.gomez-paramio@cmft.nhs.uk false 813 19 211 dr_idoia_gomez_paramio 37 6 2009-09-25T13:03:44+01:00 57 6