Imperial College London.
Tiago Costa obtained his Biochemistry degree in Portugal, and after a short spell in the industry he started his PhD in 2007 at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where he studied the function of a crucial protein involved in Yersinia infection. In 2013, he joined the laboratory of Prof Gabriel Waksman at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck and UCL to elucidate the structure of a nanomachine essential for DNA transfer during bacterial conjugation. In 2017, he joined Imperial College London and the MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection as a Lecturer in Bacterial Pathogenesis and was promoted to Senior lecturer in 2023. His lab is dedicated to understanding how bacteria transport substrates across their envelope en route to target cells. Their ultimate goal is to develop novel therapeutic strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and infectious diseases.
