Filipe Gomes Cabreiro
Academeican
Department of Biological Sciences
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Filipe Gomes Cabreiro, obtained his undergraduate degree in Applied Biochemistry from the University of Porto, Portugal. Following the success of his undergraduate studies, he qualified for a research fellowship from the French government. During Filipe’s Masters and PhD in Biochemistry at the Université Paris Diderot in France, he exploited the biological mechanisms underlying molecular stress protection and zinc homeostasis. In 2008, Filipe joined the group of Dr David Gems within the Institute of Healthy Ageing (IHA)/GEE at UCL as a post-doctoral researcher. Since this time, Filipe has broadened his background knowledge in several key areas such as genetics, molecular biology, metabolism and microbiology. Indeed, he undertook several projects simultaneously to investigate different aspects of ageing. He is currently a Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at UCL after being awarded a fellowship from the Royal Society/Wellcome Trust to explore the gut microbial action of metformin and develop strategies to target the microbiota to treat metabolic disease.
Research Interest
Biochemistry; genetics and molecular biology
