Aging, cell-state conversion and lncRNAs

Group Leader Bruno Miguel Bernardes de Jesus

Bruno Bernardes de Jesus graduated in Biochemistry at the University of Coimbra (2003) and earned a PhD on Molecular and Cellular Biology at the IGBMC, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg (2008). From 2009 to 2014, he was Junior researcher at CNIO, Madrid at the Laboratory of Maria Blasco, and from 2014 to 2018 he was senior researcher at IMM-JLA. Currently he is assistant professor at Medical Sciences Department, UA and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (iBiMED). His research focus on the biology of aging, and how aging affects cell-state conversion. Bruno Bernardes de Jesus received strategic grants from several funding agencies, totaling more than 1.3M€. Since 2022 he was appointed coordinator of iBiMED.