Sofia de Azeredo Pereira is a Pharmacologist and Associate Professor at NOVA Medical School. She completed postdoctoral research at the National Center for Toxicological Research (USA) and Slotervaart Hospital (The Netherlands) in drug toxicity and therapeutic drug monitoring. She is the Principal Investigator of the Renal, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Pharmacology Group at iNOVA4Health-NMS. Translational by nature, Sofia is passionate…

Julian Perelman holds a PhD in Economics from Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He is currently full professor at the Nova National School of Public Health (NOVA University of Lisbon), and Vice-President of the Portuguese Commission for Health Technology Evaluation (CATS). He coordinated the Mission Framework for the Sustainability of the Health Budget Program (Ministry…

Maria Rita Paiva Pessoa is a researcher at ENSP-NOVA since 2024 whose work examines how public policies shape population health through health-system organisation, with interests in health economics, social determinants of health and evidence-based policies. She holds a BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology from FCT-NOVA, and an MSc (Molecular Medicine) and PhD from Imperial…

Alexandra de Castro Vasconcelos, MD, PhD, is a paediatrician and researcher with expertise in tropical and paediatric infectious diseases, pharmaceutical medicine, and social paediatrics. Researcher at the Global Health and Tropical Medicine Centre – Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (GHTM/IHMT), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UNL) and a member of Women in Global Health –…

Catarina Delaunay holds a PhD in Sociology from the School of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University Lisbon. She is an Integrated Researcher at CICS.NOVA – Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon, where she served as deputy director and coordinated the Population, Health and Well-being research group. She is an invited Assistant…

Miguel Goulão is an Associate Professor of the Informatics Department of FCT/UNL and a researcher at the Software Systems group. He has a Ph.D. (2008) in Informatics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.The primary objective of his research is to enhance the productivity and experience of software developers, thereby improving their ability to manage software development…

Isabel Fernandes, MD, PhD, is medical oncologist consultant and a clinical research scientist in oncological and health matters. She is the Oncology Coordinator at CUF Descobertas, CUF Santarém and CUF Torres Vedras Hospitals and a visiting Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology and Oncobiology at the Nova Medical School (NMS). She is the director of the…

Rita Machado de Oliveira is Co-Principal Investigator and Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA Medical School, where she co-leads the Metabolic Disease Research Lab (MEDIR). She conducted her PhD research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and pursued postdoctoral training at Stanford University. Her early work focused on the molecular mechanisms of aging and neurodegeneration,…

Medical Degree from Lisbon University. PhD from NOVA Medical School, Lisbon. Professor of Cardiology at NOVA Medical School, Lisbon. Consultant Cardiology at Santa Marta Hospital, ULS S. José in Lisbon, with particular interest in Cardiovascular Imaging (Echocardiography) and Heart Failure. Member of the Board of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.

Giacomo Domenici is a Scientist at the Advanced Cell Models Laboratory (iBET/ITQB NOVA, Portugal) since 2018. He holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine from the University of the Basque Country, where he studied the role of SOX transcription factors in breast cancer stem cells and endocrine resistance. His current research focuses on 3D…