Helder Takashi Imoto Nakaya

Dr. Helder Nakaya is an expert in computational systems biology, an emerging field that combines machine learning algorithms and omics data to understand and predict the behavior of human diseases. Dr. Nakaya was a professor at the University of São Paulo and deputy director of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences until 2021, when he became a senior researcher at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo. He is also an adjunct professor of the Department of Pathology at Emory University School of Medicine in US. Dr. Nakaya is an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, principal investigator at the Center for Research in Inflammatory Diseases and at the Scientific Platform Pasteur-USP, consultant for CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) and IUIS (International Union of Immunological Societies), as well as member of the scientific advisory board of the European Ebola Vaccine Consortium and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Laboratory website: https://www.csbiology.org/ (Source: Lattes Curriculum)