Professor
Professor Associado
Principal Investigator
Nuno Barbosa Morais is an Associate Professor and leads the Disease Transcriptomics Laboratory at NOVA Medical School. He is an experienced computational biologist with a long-term interest in the disease-associated perturbations of transcriptional regulation in human cells. He coordinates BIOMICS, a Horizon Europe Twinning project devoted to "Fostering Excellent Research, Training and Innovation in Biomedical Data Science".
Nuno graduated in Technologic Physics Engineering (Instituto Superior Técnico, 2000) and completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Lisbon School of Medicine, 2007). Most of his PhD research, involving bioinformatics studies on the complexity and evolution of RNA splicing, took place at Cambridge University and included an internship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL, Heidelberg). He then became Research Associate at the Computational Biology Group from the University of Cambridge, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute (2006-2010). He was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship to infer the vertebrate evolution of tissue- and species-specific alternative splicing, in the Blencowe Lab at the University of Toronto (2010-2013).
He received an EMBO Installation and an FCT Investigator Starting Grants to establish a research group at Institute of Molecular Medicine, now GIMM, in Lisbon (2015-2025). He was a Guest Associate Professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine (2020-2025), teaching Bioinformatics to Masters in Biomedical Engineering, Oncobiology and Biomedical Research. Nuno received the University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2024 Scientific Award in Biomedical Sciences.