José Bragança obtained a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Université Paris XI in France, has been a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is currently holding an Assistant Professor/Lecturer position at the University of Algarve (UAlg) in Portugal. He is also the Principal Investigator directing the Stem Cells Biology Laboratory and coordinator of the Stem Cells and Development Research group the Algarve BioMedical Centre Research Institue (ABC-RI) of the UAlg. His group is interested in genes and regulatory pathways that control pluripotent stem cells (ESC - Embryonic Stem Cells, and iPSC - induced pluripotent cells) self-renewal and differentiation, particularly cardiogenesis. Group website: http://jembibet.wixsite.com/stemcelllabjbraganca