Nuno L. Alves graduated in Biology from the University of Porto (2000). He obtained his Ph.D. in Immunology at the Academical Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam (2001-2007) under the support of fellowship from the GABBA PhD program. Next, he initiated an EMBO Postdoctoral Long-Term fellowship at the Institut Pasteur in Paris (2007-2010). During his PhD and Post-Doctoral periods, I studied the role of the cytokines Interleukin 7 (IL-7) and IL-15 in the function of T cells.
In 2010, he moved to the IBMC in Porto as a Principal Investigator sponsored by the Ciência 2008 program. Since 2014, Nuno Alves holds the position of Group Leader at IBMC/i3S in 2014, initially with the support of an individual Investigator Development grant and currently with Scientific Employment Stimulus grant both from FCT. Since then, his research has been focusing on the thymus, the generative organ for T-cell production. In particular, the group has been studying the differentiation of thymic epithelial cells (TEC), which play a prominent role in T-cell development and in the establishment of immune tolerance. He has been the coordinator of several national and international research grants.
Besides his activities as a researcher, he has been responsible for teaching Immunology to under graduated (Uni Algarve) and post-graduated (Uni. Porto) and he has participated as examiner in several Master and Ph.D. thesis in Portugal and abroad. Moreover, he regular acts as reviewer for several important Immunology-related scientific journals and Funding Agencies. Lastly, acted as Vice-President (2018-2021) and treasurer (2015-2018) of the Portuguese Society of Immunology (SPI) and as Scientific Coordinator of the HIR research program, which contains 38 groups at i3S .
Selected Publications
DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2022.2074105 SCOPUS: 85130879833.
Rodrigues P.M., Ribeiro A.R., Perrod C., Landry J.J.M., Araújo L., Pereira-Castro I., Benes V., Moreira A., Xavier-Ferreira H., Meireles C., Alves N.L.,
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-12-758961 SCOPUS: 85026293874.
Rodrigues P.M., Peterson P., Alves N.L.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2017.11.001 SCOPUS: 85035084214.
Rodrigues P.M., Ribeiro A.R., Serafini N., Meireles C., Di Santo J.P., Alves N.L.,
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1701112 SCOPUS: 85044784393.
Ferreirinha P., Ribeiro C., Morimoto J., Landry J.J.M., Matsumoto M., Meireles C., White A.J., Ohigashi I., Araújo L., Benes V., Takahama Y., Anderson G., Matsumoto M., Alves N.L.,
DOI: 10.1002/eji.202048764 SCOPUS: 85090990353.
Ribeiro A.R., Meireles C., Rodrigues P.M., Alves N.L.,
DOI: 10.1002/eji.201444585 SCOPUS: 84925298291.
Ribeiro A.R., Rodrigues P.M., Meireles C., Di Santo J.P., Alves N.L.,
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1203042 SCOPUS: 84880685834.
Alves N.L., Goff O.R.L., Huntington N.D., Sousa A.P., Ribeiro V.S.G., Bordack A., Vives F.L., Peduto L., Chidgey A., Cumano A., Boyd R., Eberl G., Di Santo J.P.,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809559106 SCOPUS: 60849114415.
Alves N.L., Huntington N.D., Rodewald H.R., Di Santo J.P.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2009.07.010 SCOPUS: 70349556314.