PhD in Biomedical Sciences (2001) and Aggregation in Pathology and Molecular Genetics (2011), University of Porto

Carmen Jerónimo, a Biologist by training, is the current Director of the IPO Porto Research Center (since 2021), Scientific Coordinator of the Biobank at IPO Porto (since 2016) and Group Leader of the Cancer Biology & Epigenetics Group (since 2008).
She was born in Angola in 1972 and obtained a Degree in Biology (1994), a Master’s Degree in Oncology (1998), a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (2001) and Aggregation in Pathology and Molecular Genetics (2011) at UP.
She developed her PhD project under the GABBA Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHU), in Baltimore, MD, USA, working on prostate cancer’s genetic and epigenetic alterations.
She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in collaboration with JHU (2001-2004) and an Invited Researcher at IPO Porto (2004-2008).