Mateus Milani

Holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 2010. Completed his Masters degree in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in partnership with the Children's Hospital Boldrini, in the area of Maternal Cancer Children and leukemia in 2014.Currently holds a position as PhD student at the University of Liverpool, UK, Blood-oncology, evaluating the role of BCL-2 family of proteins in apoptosis, tumor relapse and chemoresistance in cancer.

I currently hold a postdoctoral position at the laboratory of Dr Claudio Hetz at the University of Chile working on projects related to proteostasis and cellular and organelle biology. I received my Ph.D. in cancer biology from the University of Liverpool, UK, studying the therapeutic mechanisms of BH3 mimetics-mediated apoptosis in cancer. During my Ph.D., I have published two first-author papers and until this date, contributed to more than five papers from the group. I have also published a first-author paper based on my masters degree thesis, working on biomarkers in an animal model of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and another first-author paper for my undergraduate scientific initiation studies. My current research focus on understanding the mechanisms of cell death and proteostasis in several disease models including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.