Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rui Moreira
Citation names
- Moreira, Rui
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8B11-E8C0-DFD0
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0727-9852
- Researcher Id
- G-7485-2011
- Scopus Author Id
- 7102554088
Email addresses
- rmoreira@ff.ul.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Av. Professor Gama Pinto, 1649-003, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- http://imed.ulisboa.pt/cv/rui-moreira/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Medicinal Chemistry
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pharmacology and pharmacy
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2004
Concluded
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Pharmaceutical Sciences (Título de Agregado)
Major in Medicinal Chemistry
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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1991/06
Concluded
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Farmácia (Doutoramento)
Major in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
"Contribution to the development of prodrugs for several anticancer agents" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1980 - 1985/07
Concluded
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Ciências Farmacêuticas (Licenciatura)
Major in Industrial Pharmacy
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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18/20 |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2006/10/01 - Current | Full Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento, Portugal (...) |
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2002/10/01 - 2006/10/31 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
1991/10/01 - 2002/09/30 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 | Tricks or Treats? Toward Selective Organoruthenium(II) Glycoconjugated Anticancer Agents RuGly
PTDC/MED-QUI/31468/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/10 - 2021/09 | NPSTEENSBRAIN. New Psychoactive Substances - A Platform for Risk Assessment of Teens Brain Exposure
PTDC/SAU-TOX/32515/2017
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2014/01 - 2015/12 | Incentive - UI 4013 - 2014
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2024/02/01 - 2027/01/31 | IMPULSE. IMProving User experience, Long-term sustainability and Services of EU-OPENSCREEN
DLV-101132028
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 | FRAGMENT-SCREEN
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Horizon 2020
Ongoing
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2022 - 2026 | OncoProTools
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Ongoing
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2023/01/01 - 2025/12 | Ferrous Iron-Activable Drug Conjugates: Targeting Iron Metabolism in the Era of Precision Oncology
2022.07857.PTDC
Principal investigator
Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2022/06 - 2024/06 | Iron-triggered technologies as a novel targeted therapy for cancer
LCF/TR/CI22/52660003
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Fundação 'la Caixa' |
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 | A multitarget strategy to hit all stages of the Plasmodium life-cycle
PTDC/MED-QUI/30021/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/08/10 - 2021/08/09 | Dialysis membranes by design: targeting neutrophil elastase to reduce inflammation/oxidative stress in end-stage renal disease
PTDC/MEC-CAR/31322/2017
PTDC/MED-CAR/31322/2017
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031322
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031322
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade do Porto, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/06/01 - 2021/05/31 | Fígado Gordo Não-alcoólico: Biomarcardores, Alvos e Terapias Emergentes
PTDC/MED-FAR/29097/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/06/01 - 2021/05/31 | Target@TB. Exploring a novel chemical tool to unveil new therapies and molecular targets for tuberculosis
PTDC/MED-FAR/30266/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2017/01/01 - 2020/12/31 | PRECISION ONCOLOGY BY INNOVATIVE THERAPIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
SAICTPAC/0019/2015
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2016/07/01 - 2020/06/30 | Small-molecule inhibitors of human proteasome: a step forward in anticancer drug discovery
PTDC/QEQ-MED/7042/2014
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2016/06/01 - 2019/12/31 | Exploring TOR/PI3K kinases as targets for treating protozoan neglected tropical diseases
PTDC/QEQ-MED/7097/2014
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2016/06/01 - 2019/12/31 | ProbeCOPD. Protease activity-based probes for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease diagnostics
PTDC/BBB-BEP/2463/2014
Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2016/07/01 - 2019/06/30 | New Drugs to Treat Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver and Progression to Cancer
PTDC/BIM-MEC/0895/2014
Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central EPE, Portugal
Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte EPE, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2014/04/15 - 2015/10/14 | BioClick@LSMal. Bioorthogonal clickable probes to target the liver stage of malaria
EXPL/QEQ-MED/1574/2013
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2012/03/01 - 2015/08/31 | Towards malaria eradication. A novel approach for multi-targeting the parasite´s life cycle
PTDC/SAU-FAR/118459/2010
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2013/06/24 - 2014/12/25 | Exploring a new approach to target KRAS oncogene
EXPL/QEQ-MED/0502/2012
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/03/01 - 2014/08/31 | TARGETING HEMOZOIN CRYSTAL STRUCTURE: A RATIONAL APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF NOVEL ANTIMALARIALS
PTDC/SAU-FAR/114864/2009
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 | Strategic Project - UI 4013 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/SAU/UI4013/2011
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/04/01 - 2013/09/30 | New drugs for treating and eradicating malaria
HMSP-CT/SAU-ICT/0068/2009
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/01/01 - 2013/06/30 | Targeting the mitochondrial electron transport chain of malaria parasites: computer-assisted design and synthesis of bc1 complex
inhibitors as antimalarial agents
PTDC/SAU-FCF/098734/2008
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2009/07/01 - 2011/12/31 | Advancing the field of drug delivery - combined targeted treatments against human breast cancer and human leukemia (The OncotargetNanoMed
network)
NANO/NMed-AT/0042/2007
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2008/01/01 - 2011/12/30 | Rhodium catalysed C-H bond activation and C-C bond formation in water and bio-compatible solvents - An expeditious way to
prepare biologically active heterocycles
PTDC/QUI/66695/2006
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química-Física Molecular, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2007/11/02 - 2011/10/31 | Chemical reactivity as a tool in drug design: modification of the beta-lactam scaffold to improve serine protease inhibition
PTDC/QUI/64056/2006
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2005/08/01 - 2007/09/30 | Biochemical characterization and inhibition studies of recombinant cysteine proteases of Plasmodium chabaudi, an animal model
for human malaria.
POCI/SAU-ESP/57696/2004
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Intellectual property
Patent |
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Provisional application for patent |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/01/30 | Novel Chemical Tools to Target Ferrous Iron-Dependent Biology | EU-OPENSCREEN Webinar Series 2024
EU-OPENSCREEN (Webinar)
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2023/10/24 | Cases Studies in Antimalarial Drug Discovery | Lecture for the ISF College of Pharmacy
ISF College of Pharmacy (On-Line, India)
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2023/10/10 | Endoperoxides as chemical tools to enable precision ferrous iron-dependent pharmacology | DPhG Annual Meeting 2023
DPhG (Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft) (TÜBINGEN, Germany)
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2023/07/17 | Iron Metabolism Dysregulation: a New Target for Precision Oncology | XXI Meeting of the Paul Ehrlich Euro-PhD Network
Paul Ehrlich Euro-PhD Network (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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2023/07/13 | Design of Antimalarial Compounds Inspired by Natural Products | III Bio.Natural- Bioactive Natural Products Research Conference
Bio.Natural (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/07/10 | New Chemical Tools to Target Therapeutically Relevant Serine Hydrolases | Department Seminar
Université Côte d'Azur (Nice, France)
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2023/05/10 | Exploring new chemistries to finetune the selectivity of activity-base probes targeting serine hydrolases | European Chemical Biology Symposium 2023
AstraZeneca (Gothenburg, Sweden)
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2023/01/31 | Strategies in Antimalarial Drug Discovery | EU-OPENSCREEN Webinar Series 2023
EU-OPENSCREEN (On-Line)
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2022/11/06 | Designing chemical probes for serine hydrolases | EU-OPENSCREEN - AUTUMN TRAINING SCHOOL 2022
EU-OPENSCREEN (On-Line)
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2022/08/26 | Targeting Iron Metabolism as a Novel Approach for Cancer Therapy | VI Congress Turkish Association of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Turkish Association of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Istanbul, Turkey)
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2022/06/22 | Targeting Iron Metabolism Dysregulation for Precision Oncology | XX Meeting of the Spanish Society of Medicinal Chemistry SEQT 2022
Spanish Society of Medicinal Chemistry (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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2022/03/09 | Medicinal Chemistry in Century, Quo Vadis | Inaugural Lecture of 2022 Academic Year, Fiocruz Institute
Fiocruz Institute, on-line (on-line, Brazil)
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2022/01/25 | Targeting Iron Metabolism for Selective Drug Delivery | XXVIII Summer School Professor Eliezer Barreiro in Medicinal Chemistry
On-Line
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2021/08/25 | From activity-based protein profiling to the optimization of covalent inhibitors targeting dipeptidyl peptidases | GP2A 2021 - 29th Annual Conference, Group for the Promotion of Pharmaceutical chemistry in Academia
Group for the Promotion of Pharmaceutical chemistry in Academia (on-ine)
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2021/04/30 | Chemical Tools for Hypoxia- and Ferrous Iron-Dependent Pharmacology | iMed Seminar Series |
2021/04/09 | Design of prodrugs for targeted therapy | XIV Congresso Científico NEF/AAC
On-Line
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2020/05/05 | Discovery of Dipeptidyl Peptidases 8 and 9 covalent inhibitors using activity-based protein profiling and structure-based drug design | António V. Xavier (AVX) seminars
ITQB-NOVA (Oeiras, Portugal)
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2019/12 | Discovery of new DPP8 and DPP9 inhibitors via activity-based protein profiling of serine hydrolases | 4th Iberoamerican Symposium on Organic Chemistry (Sibeaqo-IV)
(Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba)
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2019/10 | Targeting Serine Hydrolases With Novel Activity-Based Probes | University Seminar
University of Gottingen (Gottingen , Germany)
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2019/01 | Target identification using chemical biology | Chemistry & Biology CrossTalks
University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2018/03 | Boron in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology | 245th American Chemical Society National Meeting
American Chemical Society (New Orleans, United States)
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2017/12 | Novel chemical approaches to target malaria parasites | Seminar
University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
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2017/11 | Lead discovery for parasitic diseases | 3rd Northern Postgraduate Symposium on Chemistry and Biotechnology
Postgraduate Programme on Chemistry and Biotechnology, Federal University of Alagoas (Maceió)
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2017/09 | From enzyme inhibitors to chemical probes: where Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology meet | Seminar
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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2017/07 | Lead discovery for infectious diseases of the developing world: chemistry to unravel a black box | 25th Meeting of the Portuguese Chemical Society
Portuguese Chemical Society (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2017/06 | Lead discovery for parasitic diseases | 2nd Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry Course
MedChemTrain PhD Programme (Penela, Portugal)
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2016/11 | Identification and optimization of a novel chemotype with antileishmanial and dual-stage antimalarial activities | Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) 2016 Symposium
Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D) 2016 Symposium (Worcester, South Africa)
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2015/06 | Fine Tuning of Heterocycles to Discover Chemical Tools for Tropical Diseases | 7th Spanish-Portuguese-Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium
Spanish Chemical Society (Seville, Spain)
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2015/06 | Drug design and screening: identifying new therapeutic targets | 6th European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences, Protein School
EuChems Division of Life Sciences (Monte da Caparinca, Portugal)
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2015/04 | New medicines for malaria elimination | 3rd National Meeting on Tropical Medicine
Portuguese Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2015/02 | Structural optimization of multi-stage acting endoperoxide-based hybrid antimalarials | Sam Higginbottom Memorial International Lecture
Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Science (Allahabad, India)
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2015/02 | A Chemogenomic Insight into the Discovery of Single and Dual-Stage Antimalarials | 21st Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists International Conference (ISCBC-2015)
Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists (Lucknow, India)
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2014/11 | Chemogenomic Approaches to Single- and Dual-Stage Antimalarial Agents | 7th Brazilian Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (BrazMedChem2014)
(Campos do Jordão, Brazil)
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2014/10 | Structural optimization of multi-stage acting endoperoxide-based hybrid antimalarials | Targeted Chemotherapy towards Diseases Caused by Endoparasites: COST meeting
Targeted Chemotherapy towards Diseases Caused by Endoparasites: COST action (Calvi, France)
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2014/06 | From Chemical Tools to Pre-Clinical Drug Discovery | ChemULisboa
University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2014/05 | Integrated Chemogenomic and In Silico Approaches to Develop Novel Antimalarial Lead Compounds | Seminar
Institute of Molecular Medicine (Lis, Portugal)
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2014/04 | In Silico Discovery of Human Neutrophil Elastase Inhibitors for the Treatment of COPD | 7th National Meeting of Biochemistry Students
(Monte da Caparica, Portugal)
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2013/09 | New Chemical Tools to Study the Biology of Malaria | 10th National Meeting on Organic Chemistry
Portuguese Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2013/06 | Targeting the liver and blood stages of malaria parasites with small and not-so-small molecules | Seminar
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital (San Francisco, United States)
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2013/04 | Chemistry in the Treatment of Malaria: From Bench to Bed | Seminar
NOVA University, Faculty of Sciences and Technology (Monte da Caparinca, Portugal)
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2012/05 | Medicinal Chemistry for New Antimalarial Agents | ChemForum IST
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Technical University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2012/02 | Novel Lead Compounds as Candidates for Single- and Multi-Stage Antimalarial Therapy | Seminar
ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
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2011/11 | The Pathway From Natural Products to Antimalarials | 19th Portuguese-Galician Meeting of Chemistry
Colegio de Quimicos de Galicia and Portuguese Chemical Society (Pontevedra, Spain)
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2011/06 | Tuning the Reactivity of the beta-Lactam Scaffold as a Tool To Improve Inhibitory Potency Against Human Neutrophil Elastase | 2nd Iberic Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry
(Porto, Portugal)
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2011/06 | Multi-target Strategies to Treat Malaria: a Challenging Task | Seminar
University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences (Porto, Portugal)
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2010/10 | Rational Design of Bioactive Molecules: From the PC to the Bench and Vice-Versa. Novel Antimalarials | Biopharmac 2010
University of Madeira (Funchal, Portugal)
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2010/09 | From ß-Lactams to 4-Oxo-ß-Lactams: Mechanistic Studies Towards Protease Inhibition | 2nd Iberoamerican Symposium on Organic Chemistry (Sibeaqo-II)
(Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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2010/06 | Malaria: the Long Pathway From Concepts to Drugs | Seminar
University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2010/05 | Targeting Exoerythrocytic, Erythrocytic and Sexual Stages of Malaria Parasites: a Challenging Task | Annual International Conference of Medichem-2010 (ICM-2010)
(Beijing)
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2009/06 | New strategies in malaria chemotherapy: from recycling antimalarials to structure-base drug design | Seminar
University of Evora (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2008/12 | Design and Synthesis of Human Leukocyte Elastase Inhibitors Based on the ß-Lactam Scaffold | Seminar
University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
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2006/12 | Perspectivas de Desenvolvimento de Novos Fármacos para a Terapêutica da Malária | VI Congresso Luso-Moçambicano de Medicina |
2006/02 | Recycling Antimalarials New 8-Amino- and 4-Aminoquinoline Analogues | GSK Malaria Conference
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) (Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain)
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2003/10 | Lead Discovery Based on Reactivity Concepts | COST Action D13 Conference on New Molecules Towards Human Health Care
COST Action D13 Conference on New Molecules Towards Human Health Care (Li, Portugal)
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2003/02 | Acyloxymethylation in drug and prodrug design. Scope and limitations | Seminar
NOVA University, Faculty of Sciences and Technology (Monte da Caparinca, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023/03/01 - Current | Discovery of drug leads for SARS-CoV2 by Fragment-Based Drug Design
Co-supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2023/01/01 - Current | Novel probes for imaging of tumor-associated cathepsins via Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and fluorescence microscopy
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2022/11/01 - Current | New Chemical Tools to Target Necroptosis
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2022/11/01 - Current | Synthetic valorization of natural compounds to new derivatives with potential pharmacological activity
Co-supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2021 - 2025 | Targeting glioblastoma with two-photon-activable triazene prodrugs
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2021 - 2025 | Extending the Akt-targeting pharmacological toolbox with PROteolysis TArgeting Chimeric molecules (PROTACs)
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2021 - 2025 | Molecular photoswitches for targeting VEGFR2 and control angiogenesis
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2018 - 2022 | Tetraoxane-based tumor-activated prodrug strategy to target intracellular labile ferrous iron
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2018 - 2022 | Development of new drug leads for tuberculosis
Co-supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2018 - 2022 | Expanding the Toolbox of Four-Membered Rings to Study Bacterial Serine Hydrolases
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2018 - 2022 | Optimizing chemistry in flow with artificial intelligence
Co-supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2017 - 2021 | Bio-triggered triazenes: a novel approach to release alkylating agents
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2017 - 2021 | Computational analysis, de novo design, validation and target identification of necroptosis inhibitors
Co-supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2016 - 2020 | Exploring TOR/PI3K kinases as targets for treating protozoan neglected tropical diseases
Co-supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2016 - 2020 | Pharmacological Modulators of Parkinson’s Disease-Associated Proteins
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2015 - 2020 | Discovery of novel quinolone-based antimalarials using the Winterfeldt chemistry
Supervisor
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Medicina Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2015 - 2019 | 3-Oxo-ß-Sultams and 4-Oxo-ß-Lactams as Chemical Tools for Activity-based Protein Profiling of Serine Hydrolases
Supervisor of Luís Carvalho
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2012/09/01 - 2017 | Medicinal Chemistry Approaches for Novel DNA Ligands
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2012 - 2016 | Medicinal Chemistry Approaches to Malarial Drug Discovery
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2011 - 2015 | Design and Synthesis of Small Molecule Modulators of p53
Co-supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2010 - 2015 | Identification and Characterization by Electronspray Mass Spectrometry of Antimalarials that Inhibit the Mitochondrial Electron
Transport Chain
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2010 - 2014 | Synthesis and Computer-Assisted Design of Mitochondrial Electron Transport-Chain Inhibitors as Antimalarial Agents
Supervisor
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Medicinal Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2010 - 2014 | Peroxide-Based Hybrid and Prodrug Antimalarials to Deliver Cysteine Protease Inhibitors Into The Parasitic Food Vacuole
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2008 - 2012 | Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Peptidyl Inhibitors for Clan CA and Clan CD Cysteine Proteases
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2007 - 2011 | Compostos híbridos da artemisinina. Direccionamento para as fases sanguínea e hepática do parasita da malária
Co-supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2006 - 2010 | Amino Derivatives of Cryptolepine. Synthesis and In Vitro Studies with DNA and Haeme
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2004 - 2010 | N-Alkyl-ß-Lactams as Irreversible Inhibitors of Serine Proteases
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2005 - 2009 | Irreversible Inhibitors of Serine Proteases Based on the beta-Lactam Scaffold as Potential Drug Candidates
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2003 - 2007 | Potential Irreversible Inhibitors of Cysteine Proteases Based on Sultam and Naphthoquinone Scaffolds
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2002 - 2007 | Bsmoc Derivatives as Potential Cysteine Protease Inhibitors
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2001 - 2006 | Ensaios de Degradação Acelerada do Nimesulide. 4-Imidazolidinonas Como Possíveis Pró-Fármacos da Primaquina
Supervisor
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Pharmaceutical Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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1995 - 2000 | Potenciais Pró-Fármacos de Sulfonamidas
Supervisor
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Pharmaceutical Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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1992 - 1997 | Desenvolvimento de Potenciais Pró-Fármacos de Ácidos Carboxílicos
Supervisor
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Pharmaceutical Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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1992 - 1997 | Reactividade de Ésteres Carboxamido-, Sulfonamido, e Imidometilicos de Penicilinas
Supervisor
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Pharmaceutical Chemistry (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2008 - Current | American Chemical Society | |
2000 - Current | Ordem dos Farmacêuticos (Portuguese Board of Pharmacists) | |
1982/01/18 - Current | Portuguese Chemical Society |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2018/11/01 - Current | Research Foundation Flanders (FWO): chair of the expert panel for pharmaceutical sciences
Other
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Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Belgium |
2000 - Current | EMA: Expert in regulatory affairs for drug substances
Other
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European Medicines Agency, United Kingdom |
1998 - Current | INFARMED: Expert in regulatory affairs for drug substances
Other
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Infarmed Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde IP, Portugal |
2024/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC): Past-President
President / Vice-president
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European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, Belgium |
2021/01/01 - 2023/12/31 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC): President
President / Vice-president
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European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, Belgium |
2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC): President Elect
President / Vice-president
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European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, Belgium |
2016/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC): member of the Executive Committee
Member
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European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, Belgium |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2023/06/10 - 2033/06/13 | ACSMEDI-EFMC Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers 2023 | American Chemical Society | Division of Medicinal Chemistry |
2023/09/03 - 2023/09/07 | EFMC-ASMC 2023 IX EFMC International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry |
2022/09/04 - 2022/09/09 | International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry EFMC-ISMC 2022 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry |
2016/08/28 - 2016/09/01 | International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry EFMC-ISMC2016 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry |
2013/01 - 2014/09 | International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry EFMC-ISMC2014 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry |
2011/12 - 2012/09 | International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry EFMC-ISMC2012 | European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2018 - 2020 | MedChemComm (2040-2511) | The Royal Society of Chemistry |
Distinctions
Award
2009 | Luso-American Collaborative Response Awards
Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal
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1985 | Sociedade Lusitana Award
Ordem dos Farmaceuticos, Portugal
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Title
2015 | Honorary Life Fellow, Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists
Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists, India
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Other distinction
2014 | Chair of the International Simposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC ISMC) 2014 |