CEO
José Pereira Leal, PhD, is a bioinformatician with close to 20 years professional experience…
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After 10 years abroad, he returned to Portugal where he established and coordinated the Computational Genomics Laboratory, supervising post-docs, PhD and MSc students, as well as clinicians, in projects on comparative genomics, medical genomics and data integration. He also coordinated the Bioinformatics Unit of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, where he helped establishing the European biological data infrastructure ELIXIR, and its national counterpart, the Portuguese biological data infrastructure BioData.pt.
He is a founder and the executive director of Ophiomics, and is committed to translate the latest advances in Genomic and Bioinformatics research to improve clinical practice and patient care.
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