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Dr. Joaqu?n Espinosa is the executive director of the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus where he leads a dynamic and multidisciplinary research portfolio involving over 50 research teams across 25 academic units. For the past 25 years, Dr. Espinosa has performed biomedical research aimed at improving human health, making significant contributions to the fields of microbiology, cancer biology, COVID-19, and Down syndrome. In 2016, Dr. Espinosa launched the Crnic Institute?s Human Trisome Project (HTP, www.trisome.org), one of the largest cohort studies of people with Down syndrome to date. In just three years, the HTP has enrolled 900+ participants, 600+ of them with trisomy 21, enabling important discoveries leading to new clinical trials to improve health outcomes in Down syndrome. Since 2020, Dr. Espinosa serves as one of the principal investigators of the NIH INCLUDE Project Data Coordinating Center.