Bruno Cardoso
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Biosketch
This incredible journey through Science started at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) where I graduated in Genetics and Microbiology (2005). Following a very interesting internship with João Barata I join his lab and started my PhD on T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (T-ALL) in January 2006. The PhD was developed at iMM with a three-month passage through Utrecht at Paul Coffer’s lab (September-December 2008). After defending my thesis (December 2011) I continued working with João Barata as a Post-Doc/Lab manager, where I was performing research (also in T-ALL) and organizing the lab at the same time. In September 2012 I moved to António Almeida Lab (in Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa – Francisco Gentil – IPOL-FG) as a Post-Doctoral fellow and shifted a bit from lymphoid leukemias (T-ALL) and started working with Myeloid malignancies (Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Myelodisplastic Syndromes and Myeloproliferative Neoplasms) and also Fanconi Anemia.
Four years later, I returned to iMM, first as Post-Doctoral fellow and then as a Senior Researcher, to João Barata Lab to explore a new line of research in the lab – Circadian Biology in T-ALL. And, in parallel with this exciting project, we were able to identify a novel key regulator of T-ALL biology. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the recently inaugurated Católica Medical School (CMS) which includes several positions under the same umbrella: Block coordinator, Tutor, Mentor and Lecturer. In addition to this, I also established my own research group at the Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Saúde (CIIS) where we aim to understand disease biology in the context on Myeloid Malignancies.
On top of this, I was given the honor of coordinating the first block of the first group of medical students within CMS. As an extra, I was also the first Lecturer within the medical degree… Amazing.
Testimony
iMM is an amazing research institute, one of the top ones in Portugal (infrastructure, researchers, equipment, facilities, scientific production, etc), but the thing that always dazzled me the most… The people, and the amazing working atmosphere the is breath within this amazing research institute – that’s pure Gold!
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