Tulio de Oliveira

Professor Tulio de Oliveira is a bioinformatician that has been working with HIV research since 1997. He has received his PhD at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, South Africa. He was a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Oxford, U.K. from 2004 to 2006, where he received in depth training on virus genetic analysis and molecular evolution. He is recognized as an expert on HIV genetic data and bioinformatics and has published some high-impact articles including the one that presents the Rega Subtyping tools (de Oliveira et al. Bioinformatics 2005), one that proof the innocence of the six foreign medical personnel condemned to death for infecting with HIV 438 children in a hospital in Libya (de Oliveira et al. Nature 2006), open access and public HIV drug resistance databases in Africa (de Oliveira et al. Nature 2010) and the first case of proven HIV surrogate transmission in South Africa (Goedhals et al. Lancet 2012).