Group members - Jorge Ruas laboratory
Current and former group members in the Jorge Ruas laboratory.



Current group members
Jorge Ruas – Associate Professor, Research group leader
Jorge Correia – Researcher
Duarte Ferreira – Assistant professor
Michele Azzolini – Postdoc
Igor Cervenka – Postdoc
Shamim Dadvar – Doctoral student
Serge Ducommun – Postdoc
Paulo Jannig – Postdoc
Kyle Martin – Postdoc
Margareta Porsmyr-Palmertz – Research technician, Biomedical scientist
Paula da Silva – Doctoral student
Former Group members
Leandro Agudelo
Manizheh Izadi
Lars Ketscher
Amanda Klein
Vicente Martinez-Redondo
Rotations and internships
Jordi G. Torres (2020)
Research project for the Biochemistry degree at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
Marie Herrnhold (2019)
Internship from the Biomedicine program at Karolinska Institutet.
Mariana Ribeiro (2018)
Master’s thesis. MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences. University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Tomas Gybel (2018)
Visiting student from Mazaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Baubak Shamim (2018)
Visiting PhD student from the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
Paulo Jannig (2016)
Visiting PhD student from the University Sao Paulo, Brazil
Miguel Moutinho (2016)
Visiting PhD student from the University of Lisbon, Portugal
Abdirahman Farah (2015)
Internship from the Biomedicine Masters program at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Shamim Dadvar (2015)
Internship from the Medicine undergraduate program at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Alicia Hansson (2015)
Degree Project from the Medicine undergraduate program at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
In collaboration with Dr. Sreekumaran Nair at the Mayo Clinic, USA
Austin Lee (2014)
Internship from the Life Science undergraduate program at Harvard College, Boston MA, USA
Fredrik Wernstål (2014)
Internship from the Medicine undergraduate program at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Charles Petipré (2014)
Master’s thesis, MSc in Genomics and Proteomics, Université de Lille, France
Supported by the Erasmus Programme
Benedicta Ugochi Iwuagwu (2013)
Internship. MSc in Biomedicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Recipient of Karolinska Institutet's Global scholarship award, 2011
Oscar Andén (2013/2014)
Internship from the Biomedicine undergraduate program, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Vera Blaschke. (2013/2014)
Internship. Bachelor’s degree in Life Science, University of Konstanz, Germany
Recipient of a Leonardo da Vinci programme scholarship (European Commission)