Afonso Almeida

Afonso Almeida is a highly experienced researcher in the field of immunology, currently serving as a Senior Researcher in the Clinical Immunology Unit at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular since October 2015, focusing on thymic development, peripheral homeostasis, and signaling in survival and leukemia. In addition, Afonso holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa since November 2019. Previous roles include Senior Scientist at Lymphact, where Afonso contributed to adoptive T cell transfer and cancer therapy, and multiple postdoctoral fellow positions at prominent institutions, including the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and the Institut Pasteur, where foundational work in T cell homeostasis and regulatory T cell function was conducted. Afonso Almeida earned a PhD in Immunology from the Pasteur Institute in Paris and holds another PhD in Immunology from the Universidade do Porto.