Prof. Paulo J. Oliveira

Paulo J. Oliveira is a Principal Investigator at the CNC – Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is the current leader of the “Mitochondria, Metabolism and Disease” group and the MitoXT: Mitochondrial Toxicology and Experimental Therapeutics laboratory. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University de Coimbra in 1999. In 2003, he completed his PhD in Cellular Biology from the same University. After completing his doctorate, he spent more than three years working at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA, where he collaborated with several researchers and contributed to the publication of several peer-reviewed manuscripts. His current research interests focus on mitochondrial biology, investigating the alteration of cardiac mitochondrial function by physical activity and diet, cardiac mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death caused by anti-neoplastic agents, mitochondrial alterations during cancer stem cell differentiation and carcinogenesis, or rational designing of mitochondria-directed antioxidants. He has also received several prizes from the Portuguese Cardiology Society for his work on cardiac mitochondrial research. He has been the Coordinator of several EU-funded projects and is (co)-author of over 320 publications (h factor >50).