Adrián LLerena is the Director of Extremadura Biosanitary Research Institute and the Clinical Research Center in the University Hospital Ien Badajoz Spain. He is also Professor of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology in two Medical Schools in the University of Extremadura Spain and part time in the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. He earned his PhD at University of Extremadura in 1988 and between 1989 to 1993 did his post doc at Karolinska Institute Sweden focusing on Clinical Pharmacogenetics. His teaching experience is of more than 30 years in Spain and of about 9 years in Portugal. He has supervised more than 25 PhD thesis so far. He has also been an invited as Professor in different Universities in USA such as University of California at Los Angeles 2004 Mount Sinai Medical School at NY 2005 and Miller Medical School at Miami 2006 and in Latin America such as UNAM in Mexico San Marcos in Peru Chile Brasil etc. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. He is also coordinating the RIBEF IberoAmerican network of Pharmacogenetics since 2006. He served in different Scietific societies as IberoAmerican Society of Pharmacogenomics. He has been Principal Investigator in more than 25 national and European research projects. He has also served as reviewer in all journals related to clinical pharmacology and mainly pharmacogenetics and clinical psychopharmacology. At present he is the President of the Spanish Society of Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics SEFF, Board Member of ESPT, European Society of Pharmacogenetics and Theranostics. Since 2010 is is member of the EMA PGWP, European Medicines Agency Pharmacogenomics Working Parthy.