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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joao Vaz Silva
Date of birth
1991/08/12
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Vaz-Silva, Joao

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B91C-3955-82C1
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0007-4248

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/07
Concluded
Diagnóstico molecular em Patologia e Oncologia (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2019/04
Concluded
MD/PhD (Doutoramento)
Major in Neurosciences
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal

Columbia University Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, United States
2018
Concluded
Medicina (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/06 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/01 - Current Interno (Médica) Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2019/01 - 2020/01 Interno (Médica) Unidade Local de Saúde do Nordeste EPE, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Mariana Morais; Joao Vaz Silva; Mariana Vide Tavares. "Diagnosis and management of primary vulvar adenocarcinoma of mammary gland type: report of two distinct cases". BMJ Case Reports (2022): https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-245580.
    10.1136/bcr-2021-245580
  2. Viktoriya Zhuravleva; João Vaz-Silva; Mei Zhu; Patricia Gomes; Joana M. Silva; Nuno Sousa; Ioannis Sotiropoulos; Clarissa L. Waites. "Rab35 and glucocorticoids regulate APP and BACE1 trafficking to modulate Aß production". (2021): https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.10.443354.
    10.1101/2021.05.10.443354
  3. João Vaz-Silva; Patrícia Gomes; Qi Jin; Mei Zhu; Viktoriya Zhuravleva; Sebastian Quintremil; Torcato Meira; et al. "Endolysosomal degradation of Tau and its role in glucocorticoid-driven hippocampal malfunction". The EMBO Journal 37 20 (2018): https://doi.org/10.15252/embj.201899084.
    10.15252/embj.201899084
  4. Dunn, Matthew; Boltaev, Umed; Beskow, Anne; Pampou, Sergey; Realubit, Ronald; Meira, Torcato; Silva, João Vaz; et al. "Identification of Fluorescent Small Molecule Compounds for Synaptic Labeling by Image-Based, High-Content Screening". ACS Chemical Neuroscience 9 4 (2017): 673-683. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00263.
    10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00263
  5. Lopes S; Teplytska L; Vaz-Silva J; Dioli C; Trindade R; Morais M; Webhofer C; et al. "Tau Deletion Prevents Stress-Induced Dendritic Atrophy in Prefrontal Cortex: Role of Synaptic Mitochondria.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27073221.
    10.1093/cercor/bhw057
  6. Sofia Lopes; João Vaz-Silva; Vitor Pinto; Christina Dalla; Nikolaos Kokras; Benedikt Bedenk; Natalie Mack; et al. "Tau protein is essential for stress-induced brain pathology". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 26 (2016): E3755-E3763. https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1600953113.
    10.1073/pnas.1600953113
  7. Sara Pinheiro; Joana Silva; Cristina Mota; João Vaz-Silva; Ana Veloso; Vítor Pinto; Nuno Sousa; João Cerqueira; Ioannis Sotiropoulos. "Tau Mislocation in Glucocorticoid-Triggered Hippocampal Pathology". Molecular Neurobiology 53 7 (2015): 4745-4753. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12035-015-9356-2.
    10.1007/s12035-015-9356-2
  8. Ioannis Sotiropoulos; Sofia Lopes; Joao Vaz-Silva; Joana Silva; Sara Rodrigues; Vitor Pinto; Christina Dalla; et al. "Microtubule-associated protein tau is important for stress-driven depressive pathology and cognitive deficits". Alzheimer's & Dementia 11 7 (2015): P204-P204. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jalz.2015.07.200.
    10.1016/j.jalz.2015.07.200
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09 From morphology to genetics in syndromic craniosynostosis: two cases of a rare diagnosis in foetal autopsy 35th European Congress of Pathology
(Dublin, Ireland)
2023/09 Risk stratification in invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast by clinicopathological features and Prosigna-PAM50 multigene assay characterization 35th European Congress of Pathology
(Dublin, Ireland)
2023/09 Application of the new WHO reporting system for lung cytopathology on bronchial wash samples: a cytohistological correlation study from a tertiary hospital 35th European Congress of Pathology
(Dublin, Ireland)
2023/09 Glioma Classification: a brain bank perspective Iberic Neuropathology Meeting
2023/05 Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast Cleveland Clinic Salzburg Seminar in Pathology 2023
Open Medical Institute (Salzburg, Austria)
2022/11 SWI/SNF-deficient sinonasal carcinoma Cleveland Clinic Salzburg Seminar in Pathology 2022
Open Medical Institute (Salzburg, Austria)
2021/08 Hepatoblastoma: a clinicopathological review of 17 cases from a single center 33rd European Congress of Pathology

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/12 - Current II Encontro Nacional de Internos da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anatomia Patológica (2022/12)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
Sociedade Portuguesa de Anatomia Patológica, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021 - 2023 Núcleo de Internos da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anatomia Patológica Vogal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/01 - 2023/01 "Neoplasias da mama e do tracto genital Feminino" e "Neoplasias do Sistema Endócrino" Formação avançada pós-universitária em oncologia (Pós-Graduação) Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro Núcleo Regional do Norte, Portugal
2021/10 - 2021/10 "Neoplasias da mama e do tracto genital Feminino" e "Neoplasias do Sistema Endócrino" Formação avançada pós-universitária em oncologia (Pós-Graduação) Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro Núcleo Regional do Norte, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2016 “Janssen Innovation Prize – Portugal” for the development of research excellence – Winning Team
2012 Research Clerkship at Harvard Medical School (USA) from Luso-American Foundation.
Harvard Medical School, United States

Fundação Luso-Americana, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Awarded a bursary for the 35th European Congress of Pathology by the meeting scientific committee
2021 Awarded a bursary for the 33rd European Congress of Pathology by the meeting scientific committee
2014 Awarded a PhD Scholarship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).