Janis Klovins
Chairman of the Scientific Council
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
J. Kloviņš has defended his PhD from Leiden University, having worked as a researcher at the Uppsala University Institute of Neuroscience in the Netherlands, studying bacterial viruses. Prof. Kloviņš has created the Genome Database of the State Population, and implemented many research projects, identifying the role of the human genome and the microbiome in causing various diseases. He is the author of more than 90 internationally quoted publications, a member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.