Mónica Bettencourt-Dias
Mónica Bettencourt-Dias | |
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| Born | Mónica Bettencourt Carvalho 1974 (age 50–51) Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência University College London University of Cambridge Birkbeck College |
| Occupation | Cellular biologist |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Employer | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência |
Mónica Bettencourt-Dias (born 1974) is a Portuguese biochemist and cellular biologist, who is the head of the Cell Cycle Regulation research group at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. Her research involves cell cycle regulation, for which she has been recognized as the recipient of the Pfizer Award for Basic Research, the Keith Porter Prize from the American Society for Cell Biology and the Eppendorf Young European Investigator Award. She was also selected as a 2009 European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigator Fellow and inducted as a member of the EMBO in 2015. Mónica Bettencourt-Dias was appointed Director of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in November, 2017.