Jorge Ruas

I was born in the island of Madeira (Portugal) but ended up growing up across the city of Lisbon, very close to beach and the Atlantic Ocean. I went to the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon to get a Pharm.D. degree, and that’s where I started my research explorations by performing several internships in different scientific areas. After university I worked in a research lab at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal), where I was first introduced to the field of regulation of gene expression. I continued my studies in transcriptional regulation of gene expression at Karolinska Institutet (KI), with an internship at The Rockefeller University (New York, USA), and got my PhD in Medical Sciences – cell and molecular biology. I then moved to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) for my postdoctoral studies in transcriptional regulation of skeletal muscle function. In 2011, I moved back to KI to the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology as an Assistant Professor and created this research group on molecular & cellular exercise physiology. In 2016 I became Associate Professor, and in 2020 Professor of Molecular Physiology at KI.
My goal is to continue to ensure a stimulating research environment and to develop exciting projects that aim to add to our understanding of how all the organs in the body stay in (or out) of tune with each other, during health and disease.