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…

Pharmaceutical Industry post-Pandemic: Lessons Learnt and Future Directions Bionote: Susana Castro Marques is an MD, specialist in General and Family Medicine, with a post-graduation in Bioethics, an MBA in Pharmaceutical Industry Business Management and an Executive MBA at ISCTE-IUL/INDEG Business School. She has been working in the Pharmaceutical Industry for 20 years and is, since…