Joao Pedro de Magalhaes

Joao Pedro De Magalhaes is a Portuguese molecular biologist He studies aging through both computational and experimental approaches In 1999 he obtained his degree in Microbiology from Escola Superior de Biotecnologia Under Olivier Toussaint he obtained his PhD from the University of Namur in 2004 Then he did a postdoc in the George Church lab at Harvard Medical School from 2004 to 2008 In 2008 he was recruited by the University of Liverpool to lead a lab studying genomic approaches to aging In 2022 he was recruited by the University of Birmingham to be Chair of Molecular Biogerontology and he currently leads the Genomics of Aging and Rejuvenation Lab there He helps maintain several databases on aging among them GenAge AnAge DrugAge CellAge GenDR the Digital Aging Atlas and Whos Who in Gerontology His research group helped sequence the transcriptome of the longlived bowhead whale He also helps advise the Lifeboat Foundation Among his many longevityrelated scientific research projects Magalhães has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the bowhead whale5 And he has also contributed to analysis of the genome of the naked mole rat Both of these mammals are exceptionally longlived and exceptionally cancerresistant Description above from the Wikipedia article João Pedro de Magalhães licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia