Joao Pedro De Magalhaes is a Portuguese molecular biologist.
[1] In 2008, he was recruited by the University of Liverpool to lead a lab studying genomic approaches to aging.
In 2022, he was recruited by the University of Birmingham to be Chair of Molecular Biogerontology, and he currently leads the Genomics of Aging and Rejuvenation Lab there.
His research group helped sequence the transcriptome of the long-lived bowhead whale.
Among his many longevity-related scientific research projects, Magalhães has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the bowhead whale.