Nuno Alves
Immunology
SPI
Portugal
Biography
Nuno L. ALves has a Master in Biology from the University of Porto and a Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Amsterdam. Throughout his career as Immunologist, he has been interested in the mechanisms underlying the homeostasis of T cells, which represent a chief arm of the immune system. Following his Ph.D. at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, he developed his post-doctoral research at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Currently, he holds the position of Principal Investigator at the IBMC/I3S in Porto. His research has focused on the thymus, the generative organ for T-cell production. Particularly, his laboratory is focused in studying the differentiation of thymic epithelial cells (TECs), which play a prominent role in T-cell development and in the establishment of immune tolerance.
Research Interest
Epithelial cells Immunology
