Nuno Sepúlveda
Scopus summary (04/03/2022)
Number of publications: 90
Number of citations: 1854
h-index: 23
Most cited publications
Larsen R, Gozzelino R, Jeney V, Tokaji L, Bozza FA, Japiassú AM, Bonaparte D, Cavalcante MM, Chora A, Ferreira A, Marguti I, Cardoso S, Sepúlveda N, Smith A, Soares MP. A central role for free heme in the pathogenesis of severe sepsis. Sci Transl Med. 2010 Sep 29;2(51):51ra71.
Cited by 303 papers.
Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network. Reappraisal of known malaria resistance loci in a large multicenter study. Nat Genet. 2014 Nov;46(11):1197-204.
Cited by 139 papers.
Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 2007 Apr;216:48-68.
Cited by 62 papers.
Beshir KB, Sepúlveda N, Bharmal J, Robinson A, Mwanguzi J, Busula AO, de Boer JG, Sutherland C, Cunningham J, Hopkins H. Plasmodium falciparum parasites with histidine-rich protein 2 (pfhrp2) and pfhrp3 gene deletions in two endemic regions of Kenya. Sci Rep. 2017 Nov 7;7(1):14718.
Cited by 59 papers.
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Career
Jul 2021 - Current - Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Information Science of Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021 - Consultant in Biostatistics/Bioinformatics for Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
Nov 2014 - Dec 2019 - Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Statistical Genetics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , UK.
Nov 2012 - Oct 2014 - Research Fellow of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , UK.
Nov 2010 - Oct 2012 - Research Fellow of Statistical Genetics & Genetic Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , UK.
Jan 2010 - Oct 2010 - Head of Quantitative Methods Department, Exigo Consultores, Lisbon, Portugal.
Education
PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência & Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar of University of Oporto, Portugal
Thesis: How is the T-cell repertoire shaped?
Supervisors: Jorge Carneiro & Manuel Vilanova
MSc in Applied Mathematics (Statistics), Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Thesis: Statistical models for the joint action of two loci determining complex binary traits (in Portuguese)
Supervisors: Carlos Daniel Paulino & Carlos Penha-Gonçalves
BSc in Applied Mathematics & Computation, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Thesis: Exact inferential methods for categorical data (in Portuguese)
Prizes & Awards
2011 NEDAI | MSD Basic Research in Autoimmunity Award for the paper entitled "Differentiation of human thymic regulatory T cells at the double positive stage" (Nunes-Cabaço H, Caramalho I, Sepúlveda N, Sousa AE. Eur J Immunol 41: 3604--3614, 2011).
2008 SPE (Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística) prize with the paper entitled "Allelic penetrance approach: a new modelling approach to the analysis of complex binary traits".
Sepúlveda N, Paulino CD. Comparison of serologic techniques on the diagnosis of Schistosomiasis by exact methods (in Portuguese). Best poster of the VIII Annual Congress of the Portuguese Society for Statistics, Peniche, Portugal.