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  • Susana Castro Marques

    Susana Castro Marques

    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…

  • Jorge Rocha

    Jorge Rocha

    From Maps to Action: Comprehensive Strategies for Pandemic Prevention and Response Bionote: Jorge Rocha is associate professor and researcher of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning – University of Lisbon. He is MSc. in Geographic Information Systems (University of Lisbon) and  Spatial Planning and GIS and Remote sensing (Nova University of Lisbon) and PhD…

  • Catarina Pimental

    Catarina Pimental

    Fungal Threats in Pandemic Preparedness: Treatment challenges and the antifungal potential of copper-azole complexes Bionote: Catarina Pimentel is an Auxiliary Researcher at ITQB NOVA. She earned her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Coimbra, in the field of Plant Sciences. Soon after, she shifted her scientific focus and joined ITQB NOVA to study metal stress…

  • Ricardo Assunção

    Ricardo Assunção

    From Farm to Climate: Navigating the Interplay Between Food Systems and Climate Change Bionote: Ricardo Assunção, veterinarian, has dedicated his career to advancing public health, particularly in the realm of food safety and its implications for human health. He earned his European PhD in Veterinary Sciences specializing in the intersection of food and human disease.…

  • Isabel Oliveira

    Isabel Oliveira

    European Partnership in Pandemic Preparedness Bionote: Since 2020, Isabel has been working at AICIB as Delegate and National Contact Point for Health in the European Research Programme Horizon Europe. She has a degree in Biology–Genetics and PhD in Molecular Biology. She has complementary studies in Bioethics. Between 2009 and 2020 she was Head of the…

  • Sofia Santos Costa

    Sofia Santos Costa

    Searching for new drugs to fight staphylococcal infections: a drug repurposing strategy to identify efflux inhibitors and antibiofilm agentes Bionote: Sofia Santos Costa is a Researcher at the Medical Microbiology Unit at IHMT-NOVA and a member of the Global Health and Tropical Medicine Research Center (GHTM), Tuberculosis, HIV and Opportunistic Pathogens and diseases (THOP) group. She…

  • Paulo Paixão

    Paulo Paixão

    Tackling pandemics: a medical perspective Bionote: FCM|NMS (Lisbon): Associated Professor,  Head of the Unit “Infection”. Coordinator of the mobility programs. Coordinator of the 3rd year of the Medicine Master Course Coordinator of the COVID-19 Committee of the FCM|NMS (2020-22) Clinical Pathology Laboratory – Hospital da Luz (Lisbon): Director (2007-present) President of the Portuguese Society for…

  • João Paulo Gomes

    João Paulo Gomes

    Microbial genomics as a public health borderless compass for the detection and monitoring of emerging infectious agents and outbreak control Bionote: João Paulo Gomes (JPG) obtained the PhD degree in 2006 in Biology, under the collaboration of Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (California, USA) with the Portuguese National Institute of Health (INSA). He works in…

  • Alda Correia 

    Alda Correia 

    Narrative Medicine in Pandemics Context Bionote: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University in Lisbon, where she has taught in the fields of Comparative Literature and Literary Studies. Her areas of interest include the history and theory of the short story, narratology, comparative literature, regionalist literature and narrative medicine. She…

  • Paula Patrício

    Paula Patrício

    Mathematical models for infectious Diseases Bionote: Paula Cristiana Costa Garcia da Silva Patrício completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2009 at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at NOVA School of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.…