Short bio
Pedro Beltrao has a Biochemistry degree from University of Coimbra (2002) and a PhD in Biology from the University of Aveiro for research conducted at EMBL-Heidelberg under the supervision of Luis Serrano (2007). He did his postdoctoral research at the University of California San Francisco under the supervision of Prof. Nevan Krogan (2008-2012). He was a group leader at EMBL-EBI from 2013 to 2021 and he is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich since Jan 2022.
Research interest
Our research group aims to develop an integrated understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the relation between genotype and phenotype with a specific focus on human trait variation and disease. The group aims to develop a set of models that evaluate how changes in DNA cause changes in protein function and their impacts on specific cells to have an effect at the level of the physiology of the organism. For this the group combines sequence and structure-based methods to predict the impact of protein variants with protein interaction network models of human cell biology.