Jeronimo Conceição Ruiz has a PhD in Biochemistry, with an emphasis on Bioinformatics from the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto (FRMP/USP) and completed a post-doctorate at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (PSSU), England. He has experience in the area of Bioinformatics, working with the computational development of immunotherapeutics, identification of diagnostic biomarkers, prognosis and responses to treatments, and predictive models.
He is currently a senior researcher at the René Rachou Institute (IRR / Fiocruz), where he leads the Biosystems Informatics, Bioengineering and Genomics Group.