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Marcelo Alves da Silva Mori Versão em português
Advisor to the General Coordination – Biomedical Sciences 1
Marcelo A. Mori holds a degree in Biological Sciences (Medical Modality) from the Federal University of São Paulo (2002). He obtained a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the same institution (2007), with an internship at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA (2007-2011). In 2011, he was hired as an Assistant Professor by the Department of Biophysics at the Federal University of São Paulo.
In 2016, he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Tissue Biology at the Institute of Biology of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he chaired the department for two terms (2017-2021) and served as the institute’s research coordinator for one term (2018-2020). He is currently an Associate Professor II (Tenured) at the same institution and a member of the Board of the Multidisciplinary Center for Biological Investigation (CEMIB). He also coordinated the Unicamp Task Force against COVID-19.
He is a CNPq-1B Research Productivity Fellow and a former affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2018-2022). He received the Young Researcher Award from the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and was nominated for the Novo Nordisk-Helmholtz Young Investigator in Diabetes Award (HeIDi). He is a member of the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq) and the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC), where he served as Regional Secretary (2019-2021). Additionally, he is an editor for the journals eLife and Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and reviews for the leading scientific journals in the field.
He has experience in the areas of Molecular Biology, Physiology, Biochemistry, and Tissue Biology, with an emphasis on Metabolism. His research mainly focuses on investigating the molecular mechanisms associated with metabolic syndrome and the aging process.