Rate My Professor Eduardo Reis

Eduardo Moraes Rego Reis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, Universidade de São Paulo. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Aquatic Sciences from the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) from the Universidade de São Paulo in 2000. He completed postdoctoral training at the Universidade de São Paulo from 2000 to 2005 and served as a Visiting Researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, USA, from 2008 to 2010.

He serves as a full advisor in the Graduate Programs in Biochemistry at IQ-USP and Bioinformatics at Interunidades-USP. His research focuses on biochemistry with an emphasis on molecular biology and functional genomics, including transcriptome analysis, identification of molecular markers in cancer and complex diseases, bioinformatics, and the annotation and functional characterization of non-coding RNAs. His laboratory investigates global changes in gene expression patterns in human tumors to understand the molecular bases of cancer, identify new biomarkers for early diagnosis and clinical prognosis, and point to possible therapeutic targets, with particular interest in the functional characterization of protein non-coding RNAs expressed in the human genome.