Cláudio M. Gomes

Scientific Advisor at Aelin Therapeutics

Cláudio M. Gomes is Associate Professor (Agregado) at the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon where he heads the Protein Misfolding and Amyloids in Biomedicine Laboratory at BioISI Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute. He graduated in Chemistry and Biotechnology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, joined the Gulbenkian PhD program in Biology and Medicine and got a PhD degree in biochemistry at ITQB (1999) and habilitation in Biochemistry in the specialty of Structural Biochemistry (in 2013). He is a Biochemist specialised in protein folding, structural biochemistry and biophysics, and the scientific activity of his laboratory is focused on investigating protein folding diseases, the biochemistry of neurodegeneration and mechanisms of amyloid formation. He regularly serves as international expert project reviewer for national funding agencies, the European Commission and foundations and as Editor and peer-reviewer for international scientific journals.

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  • Scientific Advisor

    Current role