Jose Ramon Bilbao is Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of the Basque Country School of Medicine and PI at Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute. He is interested in the Functional Genomics of immune-mediated diseases of childhood, like celiac disease, to clarify the role of GWAS associated SNPs in disease pathogenesis. He is also active in the INMA birth cohort, to understand the effect of Environment-Genetics interactions in child development, and future common disease.