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António Polónia. Concluiu o(a) Doutoramento em Programa Doutoral em Medicina e Oncologia Molecular em 2018 pelo(a) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Mestrado em Medicina e Oncologia Molecular em 2012 pelo(a) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina e Licenciatura em Medicina em 2004 pelo(a) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas. É Assistente no(a) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular e Professor Associado Convidado no(a) Universidade Fernando Pessoa Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde. Publicou 49 artigos em revistas especializadas (h-index 19). Organizou 13 evento(s). Coorientou 1 tese(s) de doutoramento. Coorientou 1 dissertação(ões) de mestrado. Recebeu 6 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens. Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde com ênfase em Medicina Básica com ênfase em Patologia. Nas suas atividades profissionais interagiu com 427 colaborador(es) em coautorias de trabalhos científicos. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Patologia Digital; Processamento de Imagem; Expressão HER2; Ciências médicas e da saúde; Medical and Health sciences; Cancro da mama; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
António Polónia

Citation names

  • Polónia, António

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BE1A-EACC-8004
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8312-1681

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pathology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018
Concluded
 Programa Doutoral em Medicina e Oncologia Molecular (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Studying the value of prognostic and predictive biomarkers in breast cancer pathology" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado
2012
Concluded
 Medicina e Oncologia Molecular (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Expression of histone modifying enzymes and histone post-translational marks in colorectal cancer" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2004
Concluded
 Medicina (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/01 - Current Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Fernando Pessoa Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014/01/02 - Current Assistente (Médica) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/11/09 - 2013/10/28 Médico Interno de Anatomia Patológica Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2008/04/01 - 2009/11/06 Médico Interno de Anatomia Patológica Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2005/01/03 - 2006/03/31 Médico Interno do Ano Comum Hospital de Braga, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Almeida, M; Soares, M; Fonseca-Moutinho, José; Polónia, António; Ramalhinho, AC; Breitenfeld, L. Corresponding author: Almeida, M. "Polymorphisms in estrogenic metabolic pathway genes: Clinical significance and lifetime outcome". Paper presented in 7th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry session Fighting cancers, 2021.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Ferreira, Diana; Vale, João; Curado, Mónica; Polónia, António; Eloy, Catarina. "O impacto de diferentes métodos de montagem na digitalização de lâminas histológicas". Paper presented in I Congresso BioMedLab, 2023.
  2. Neves, Beatriz; Vale, João; Polónia, António; Campelos, Sofia; Curado, Mónica; Eloy, Catarina. "Inking Cellblocks Improves Scanner Detection For Primary Diagnosis". Paper presented in 17th European Congress on Digital Pathology da European Society for Digital and Integrative Pathology, 2021.
  3. Tavares, Sandra; Vieira, A.; Taubenberger, A.; Martins, N.; Brás-Pereira C; Margarida A.; Polónia, António; et al. "Actin stress fiber re-organization promotes the growth of pre-invasive breast cancer cells through cell stiffening". Paper presented in EACR Conference Goodbye Flat Biology: Models, Mechanisms and Microenvironment, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
  4. Tavares, Sandra; Vieira, Andre; Taubenberger, A; Martins, N.; Polónia, António; Cardoso, J; Pereira-Leal, J.; et al. "Cross-talk between Src signaling activity and F-actin during tumoral transformation". Paper presented in Stem cell mechanobiology in development and disease ¿ EMBO Workshop, Capri, Italy., 2015.
Journal article
  1. Gil Shamai; Ran Schley; Alexandra Cretu; Tal Neoran; Edmond Sabo; Yoav Binenbaum; Shachar Cohen; et al. "Clinical utility of receptor status prediction in breast cancer and misdiagnosis identification using deep learning on hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides". Communications Medicine (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00695-5.
    10.1038/s43856-024-00695-5
  2. Antonia Syrnioti; A. Polónia; Joao Correia-Pinto; Catarina Eloy. "Human–machine interaction in computational cancer pathology". ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esmorw.2024.100062.
    10.1016/j.esmorw.2024.100062
  3. Ruoyu Shi; João Correia Pinto; Ivan Rienda; Peter Caie; Catarina Eloy; António Polónia. "Image analysis for bright-field HER2 in situ hybridization: validation for clinical use". Virchows Archiv (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-024-03889-3.
    10.1007/s00428-024-03889-3
  4. Faryna K; Tessier L; Juan Antonio Retamero; Bonthu S; Samanta P; Singhal N; Kammerer-Jacquet SF; et al. "Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence-Based Gleason Grading Algorithms "in the Wild".". Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.modpat.2024.100563.
    10.1016/j.modpat.2024.100563
  5. Catarina Eloy; João Vale; Mariana Barros; Diana Oliveira; Morgana Mesquita; Mónica Curado; João Pinto; António Polónia. "Optimizing the management of thyroid specimens to efficiently generate whole slide images for diagnosis". Virchows Archiv (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00428-024-03762-3.
    10.1007/s00428-024-03762-3
  6. Micaela Almeida; Catarina L. Ferreira; Rosa Maria Tomé; José Fonseca-Moutinho; António Polónia; Ana Cristina Ramalhinho; Luiza Breitenfeld. "Somatic Mutations in KEAP1-NRF2 Complex in Breast Cancer". Cancers (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16132411.
    10.3390/cancers16132411
  7. Sherman; Tran C; Bandari E; Romagnoli T; Li Y; Chu M; Amirthakatesan AS; et al. "The 1000 Mitoses Project: A Consensus-Based International Collaborative Study on Mitotic Figures Classification.". International journal of surgical pathology (2024): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11497755.
    10.1177/10668969241234321
  8. Marta Baptista Freitas; Irene Gullo; Dina Leitão; Lúcia Águas; Carla Oliveira; António Polónia; Joana Gomes; et al. "HER2 and PD-L1 Expression in Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer: Insights for Combinatorial Targeting Approaches". Cancers (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16061227.
    10.3390/cancers16061227
  9. Catarina Eloy; Beatriz Neves; João Vale; Sofia Campelos; Mónica Curado; António Polónia. "Inking cell blocks improves scanner detection for diagnosis in pathology". Diagnostic Cytopathology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/dc.25224.
    10.1002/dc.25224
  10. Ariana Maia; Bárbara Carvalho; João Vale; Mónica Curado; Carmel Ryan; António Polónia; Catarina Eloy. "One nodule–one punction–one slide: Optimizing thyroid fine-needle aspiration for a digital workflow". Cytopathology (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cyt.13338.
    10.1111/cyt.13338
  11. Caramelo, Ana; Polónia, António; Vale, João; Curado, Mónica; Campelos, Sofia; Nascimento, Vanessa; Barros, Mariana; et al. "Demonstrating the interference of tissue processing in the evaluation of tissue biomarkers: The case of PD-L1". Pathology - Research and Practice 248 (2023): 154605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prp.2023.154605.
    10.1016/j.prp.2023.154605
  12. Juliana Poças; Catarina Marques; Gomes C; Andreia H Otake; Filipe Pinto; Ferreira M; Silva T; et al. "Syndecan-4 is a maestro of gastric cancer cell invasion and communication that underscores poor survival.". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2023): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10193992.
    10.1073/pnas.2214853120
  13. Luiz M. Nova-Camacho; Katrina Collins; Kiril Trpkov; Acosta AM; Ankur Sangoi; Akgul M; Chou A; et al. "Metastatic solid tumours to the penis: a clinicopathologic evaluation of 109 cases from an international collaboration.". Histopathology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/his.14927.
    10.1111/his.14927
  14. Catarina Eloy; Ana Marques; João Pinto; Jorge Pinheiro; Sofia Campelos; Mónica Curado; João Vale; António Polónia. "Artificial intelligence–assisted cancer diagnosis improves the efficiency of pathologists in prostatic biopsies". Virchows Archiv (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-023-03518-5.
    10.1007/s00428-023-03518-5
  15. Luca Cima; Francesca Pagliuca; Evelin Torresani; Antonio Polonia; Catarina Eloy; Venkatesh Dhanasekeran; Rifat Mannan; et al. "Decline of case reports in pathology and their renewal in the digital age: an analysis of publication trends over four decades". Journal of Clinical Pathology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp-2022-208626.
    10.1136/jcp-2022-208626
  16. Gil Shamai; Amir Livne; António Polónia; Edmond Sabo; Alexandra Cretu; Gil Bar-Sela; Ron Kimmel. "Deep learning-based image analysis predicts PD-L1 status from H&E-stained histopathology images in breast cancer". Nature Communications (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34275-9.
    10.1038/s41467-022-34275-9
  17. Caner Mercan; Balkenhol M; Roberto Salgado; Mark Sherman; Vielh P; Vreuls W; Polónia A; et al. "Deep learning for fully-automated nuclear pleomorphism scoring in breast cancer.". NPJ breast cancer (2022): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9643392.
    10.1038/s41523-022-00488-w
  18. António Polónia; Carolina Canelas; Ana Caramelo. "Reply to letter to the editor by Lee et al.". Virchows Archiv (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-022-03357-w.
    10.1007/s00428-022-03357-w
  19. Eduardo Conde-Sousa; João Vale; Ming Feng; KELE XU; Yin Wang; Della Mea V; David La Barbera; et al. "HEROHE Challenge: Predicting HER2 Status in Breast Cancer from Hematoxylin–Eosin Whole-Slide Imaging". Journal of Imaging (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/8/8/213.
    10.3390/jimaging8080213
  20. António Polónia; Carolina Canelas; Ana Caramelo. "The spectrum of HER2 expression in breast cancer: linking immunohistochemistry quantification with in situ hybridization assay". Virchows Archiv 480 6 (2022): 1171-1179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-022-03290-y.
    10.1007/s00428-022-03290-y
  21. Ferreira, Diana; Vale, João; Curado, Mónica; Polónia, António; Eloy, Catarina. "The impact of different coverslipping methods in the quality of the whole slide images used for diagnosis in pathology". Journal of Pathology Informatics 13 (2022): 100098. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpi.2022.100098.
    10.1016/j.jpi.2022.100098
  22. Campelos, Sofia; Polónia, António; Caramelo, Ana; Curado, Mónica; Eloy, Catarina. "p40/PD-L1 and TTF1/PD-L1 Immunohistochemical Double Staining Contributes to Intraindividual Variability Associated With PD-L1 Staining Interpretation in Lung Cancer Samples". Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology 30 3 (2021): 165-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/pai.0000000000000999.
    Published • 10.1097/pai.0000000000000999
  23. Filippo Fraggetta; Vincenzo L’Imperio; David Ameisen; Rita Carvalho; Sabine Leh; Tim-Rasmus Kiehl; Mircea Serbanescu; et al. "Best Practice Recommendations for the Implementation of a Digital Pathology Workflow in the Anatomic Pathology Laboratory by the European Society of Digital and Integrative Pathology (ESDIP)". Diagnostics 11 11 (2021): 2167-2167. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11112167.
    10.3390/diagnostics11112167
  24. Catarina Eloy; João Vale; Mónica Curado; António Polónia; Sofia Campelos; Ana Caramelo; Rui Sousa; Manuel Sobrinho-Simões. "Digital Pathology Workflow Implementation at IPATIMUP". Diagnostics 11 11 (2021): 2111-2111. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11112111.
    10.3390/diagnostics11112111
  25. Joana dos Santos; Rafael Adame Cabrera; Beatriz L. Neves; Eduardo Silva; António Polónia. "Squamous cell carcinoma with sarcomatous transformation of the penis.". Autopsy & case reports (2021): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8387073.
    10.4322/acr.2021.303
  26. António Polónia; Ana Caramelo. "HER2 in situ hybridization test in breast cancer: quantifying margins of error and genetic heterogeneity". Modern Pathology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41379-021-00813-x.
    10.1038/s41379-021-00813-x
  27. Duarte, Henrique O.; Rodrigues, Joana G.; Gomes, Catarina; Hensbergen, Paul J.; Ederveen, Agnes L. Hipgrave; de Ru, Arnoud H.; Mereiter, Stefan; et al. "ST6Gal1 targets the ectodomain of ErbB2 in a site-specific manner and regulates gastric cancer cell sensitivity to trastuzumab". Oncogene 40 21 (2021): 3719-3733. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41388-021-01801-w.
    Published • 10.1038/s41388-021-01801-w
  28. Raquel Machado-Neves; Bernardo Teixeira; Elsa Fonseca; Pedro Valente; Joaquim Lindoro; Fernando Vila; António Polónia. "Penile Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma: A Rare Case With PD-L1 Expression". International Journal of Surgical Pathology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1177/1066896920988340.
    10.1177/1066896920988340
  29. Ayat Aloqaily; Polonia A; Campelos S; Alrefae N; João Vale; Caramelo A; Eloy C. "Digital Versus Optical Diagnosis of Follicular Patterned Thyroid Lesions.". Head and neck pathology (2020): https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8134627.
    10.1007/s12105-020-01243-y
  30. António Polónia; Sofia Campelos; Ana Ribeiro; Ierece Aymore; Daniel Pinto; Magdalena Biskup-Fruzynska; Ricardo Santana Veiga; et al. "Artificial Intelligence Improves the Accuracy in Histologic Classification of Breast Lesions". American Journal of Clinical Pathology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/aqaa151.
    10.1093/ajcp/aqaa151
  31. Raquel Machado-Neves; João Vale; Catarina Eloy; António Polónia. "HER2 genomic heterogeneity is a frequent event in gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma and correlates with tumor morphology". Pathology - Research and Practice 216 9 (2020): 153090-153090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prp.2020.153090.
    10.1016/j.prp.2020.153090
  32. David La Barbera; António Polónia; Kevin Roitero; Eduardo Conde-Sousa; Vincenzo Della Mea. "Detection of HER2 from Haematoxylin-Eosin Slides Through a Cascade of Deep Learning Classifiers via Multi-Instance Learning". Journal of Imaging 6 9 (2020): 82-82. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging6090082.
    10.3390/jimaging6090082
  33. Zaneta Swiderska-Chadaj; Hans Pinckaers; Mart van Rijthoven; Maschenka Balkenhol; Margarita Melnikova; Oscar Geessink; Quirine Manson; et al. "Learning to detect lymphocytes in immunohistochemistry with deep learning". Medical Image Analysis (2019): 101547-101547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2019.101547.
    10.1016/j.media.2019.101547
  34. Gomes C; Almeida A; Barreira A; Calheiros J; Pinto F; Abrantes R; Costa A; et al. "Carcinoembryonic antigen carrying SLeX as a new biomarker of more aggressive gastric carcinomas.". Theranostics (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/31695778.
    10.7150/thno.33858
  35. Mónica Curado; Ana Sofia Caramelo; Catarina Eloy; António Polónia. "What to expect from the 2018 ASCO/CAP HER2 guideline in the reflex in situ hybridization test of immunohistochemically equivocal 2+ cases?". Virchows Archiv 475 3 (2019): 303-311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-019-02567-z.
    10.1007/s00428-019-02567-z
  36. Souteiro P; Polónia A; Eloy C. "Repeating thyroid fine-needle aspiration before 3 months may render increased nondiagnostic results.". Clinical endocrinology (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/31449320.
    10.1111/cen.14080
  37. Freitas D; Campos D; Gomes J; Pinto F; Macedo JA; Matos R; Mereiter S; et al. "O-glycans truncation modulates gastric cancer cell signaling and transcription leading to a more aggressive phenotype.". EBioMedicine (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30662000.
    10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.01.017
  38. Aresta, G.; Araújo, T.; Kwok, S.; Chennamsetty, S.S.; Safwan, M.; Alex, V.; Marami, B.; et al. "BACH: Grand challenge on breast cancer histology images". Medical Image Analysis 56 (2019): 122-139. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85067343074&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.media.2019.05.010
  39. Ribeiro AS; Nobre AR; Mendes N; Almeida J; Vieira AF; Sousa B; Carvalho FA; et al. "SRC inhibition prevents P-cadherin mediated signaling and function in basal-like breast cancer cells.". Cell communication and signaling : CCS (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30404626.
    10.1186/s12964-018-0286-2
  40. Mereiter S; Polom K; Williams C; Polonia A; Guergova-Kuras M; Karlsson NG; Roviello F; Magalhães A; Reis CA. "The Thomsen-Friedenreich Antigen: A Highly Sensitive and Specific Predictor of Microsatellite Instability in Gastric Cancer.". Journal of clinical medicine (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30189652.
    10.3390/jcm7090256
  41. Fondón I; Sarmiento A; García AI; Silvestre M; Eloy C; Polónia A; Aguiar P. "Automatic classification of tissue malignancy for breast carcinoma diagnosis.". Computers in biology and medicine (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29544146.
    10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.03.003
  42. Polónia A; Oliveira G; Schmitt F. "Characterization of HER2 gene amplification heterogeneity in invasive and in situ breast cancer using bright-field in situ hybridization.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28702778.
    10.1007/s00428-017-2189-9
  43. Tavares S; Vieira AF; Taubenberger AV; Araújo M; Martins NP; Brás-Pereira C; Polónia A; et al. "Actin stress fiber organization promotes cell stiffening and proliferation of pre-invasive breast cancer cells.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28508872.
    10.1038/ncomms15237
  44. Persson N; Stuhr-Hansen N; Risinger C; Mereiter S; Polónia A; Polom K; Kovács A; et al. "Epitope mapping of a new anti-Tn antibody detecting gastric cancer cells.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28419225.
    10.1093/glycob/cwx033
  45. Polónia A; Pinto R; Cameselle-Teijeiro JF; Schmitt FC; Paredes J. "Prognostic value of stromal tumour infiltrating lymphocytes and programmed cell death-ligand 1 expression in breast cancer.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28373294.
    10.1136/jclinpath-2016-203990
  46. Polónia A; Eloy C; Pinto J; Braga AC; Oliveira G; Schmitt F. "Counting invasive breast cancer cells in HER2 silver in situ hybridization test: how many cells are enough?". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28267250.
    10.1111/his.13208
  47. Oliveira G; Polónia A; Cameselle-Teijeiro JM; Leitão D; Sapia S; Sobrinho-Simões M; Eloy C. "EWSR1 rearrangement is a frequent event in papillary thyroid carcinoma and in carcinoma of the thyroid with Ewing family tumor elements (CEFTE).". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28236059.
    10.1007/s00428-017-2095-1
  48. Araújo T; Aresta G; Castro E; Rouco J; Aguiar P; Eloy C; Polónia A; Campilho A. "Classification of breast cancer histology images using Convolutional Neural Networks.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28570557.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0177544
  49. Polónia A; Leitão D; Schmitt F. "Application of the 2013 ASCO/CAP guideline and the SISH technique for HER2 testing of breast cancer selects more patients for anti-HER2 treatment.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26754674.
    10.1007/s00428-016-1903-3
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. António José Polónia Rodrigues de Oliveira. "Studying the value of prognostic and predictive biomarkers in breast cancer pathology". PhD, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/113413.
  2. António José Polónia Rodrigues de Oliveira. "Expression of histone modifying enzymes and histone post-translational marks in colorectal cancer". Master, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/72980.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/11 The HEROHE Challenge 1st ESDIP Workshop “Going into digital pathology in pandemic times: all you need to know for implementation”
ESDIP (Porto, Portugal)
2019/05/31 FISH, SISH e CISH Curso de Patologia Molecular “From bench to bedside”
Núcleo de Internos de Anatomia Patológica (Porto, Portugal)
2017/10 Heterogeneity in HER2-positive breast cancer Bordeaux-Porto Meeting on Molecular Pathology
Inserm U1053 BaRITOn and U1218 ACTION, Collège des Pathologistes du Sud-Ouest, SIRIC Brio, Bergonié Institute, CHU Bordeaux and Université Bordeaux (Bordéus, France)
2016/10 Telemacroscopia em Patologia Digital V Curso de Patologia Digital
Sociedade Espanhola de Anatomia Patológica (Porto, Portugal)
2016/05/13 Actualização das guidelines para o teste de HER2 tHERtúlia Nacional em Cancro da Mama
Roche (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/05 A evolução e inovação na Anatomia Patológica – Patologia Digital XVII Congresso Técnico de Anatomia Patológica
Associação Portuguesa de Técnicos de Anatomia Patológica (Porto, Portugal)
2015/10/09 Estudo anátomo-patológico – Curso Pré-Congresso: Métodos Laboratoriais em Oncologia IX Congresso Nacional de Senologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Senologia (Cascais, Portugal)
2015/10/09 Imunohistoquímica - Curso Pré-Congresso: Métodos Laboratoriais em Oncologia IX Congresso Nacional de Senologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Senologia (Cascais, Portugal)
2015/10/09 SISH – Curso Pré-Congresso: Métodos Laboratoriais em Oncologia IX Congresso Nacional de Senologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Senologia (Cascais, Portugal)
2015/10/09 PCR, gene array e sequenciação – Curso Pré-Congresso: Métodos Laboratoriais em Oncologia IX Congresso Nacional de Senologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Senologia (Cascais, Portugal)
2015/05 Validação em Patologia Digital – Exame macroscópico XVI Congresso Técnico de Anatomia Patológica
Associação Portuguesa de Técnicos de Anatomia Patológica (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/03 Patologia Digital: Futuro ou Presente? V Simpósio Técnico de Anatomia Patológica – Evolução e Novas Perspectivas
Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Politécnico do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2014/12/13 Aplicações no diagnóstico de tumores sólidos – Carcinoma da mama 1º Curso de Introdução à Patologia Molecular
Ipatimup (Porto, Portugal)
2014/06/27 Actualização das guidelines para o teste de HER2 tHERtúlia em Cancro da Mama
Ipatimup (Porto, Portugal)
2013/09 Expression of histone modifying enzymes and histone post-translational marks in colorectal cancer 25th European Congress of Pathology
European Society of Pathology (Lisboa, Portugal)
2011/04/09 Metastatic Disease in Thyroid: The Experience of Two Reference Centers XIV Congresso Nacional de Anatomia Patológica
Sociedade Portuguesa de Anatomia Patológica (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019/11/01 - 2025 Genetic Polymorphisms of NRF2-KEAP1 and Protein Expression in Breast Cancer: a marker for prognosis and treatment
Co-supervisor
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016/09/19 - 2018/10/25 Classificação automática da expressão HER2 em imagens de hibridização in situ de tecido mamário
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/10/21 - 2024/10/22 Workshop on Digital and Computational Pathology (2024/10/21 - 2024/10/22)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Society of Pathology, Belgium
2024/09/07 - 2024/09/11 36th European Congress of Pathology (2024/09/07 - 2024/09/11)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Society of Pathology, Belgium
2024/09/08 - 2024/09/09 Computational Pathology Symposium (2024/09/08 - 2024/09/09)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Society of Pathology, Belgium
2024/05/27 - 2024/05/29 Introdução à Análise de Imagem em Patologia Digital com o QuPath (2024/05/27 - 2024/05/29)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2023/11/27 - 2023/11/29 Introdução à Análise de Imagem em Patologia Digital com o QuPath (2023/11/27 - 2023/11/29)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2023/09/09 - 2023/09/13 35th European Congress of Pathology (2023/09/09 - 2023/09/13)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Society of Pathology, Belgium
2022/09/03 - 2022/09/07 34th European Congress of Pathology (2022/09/03 - 2022/09/07)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Society of Pathology, Belgium
2019/10/01 - 2020/01/28 Grand Challenge HEROHE (HER2 on HE) (2019/10/01 - 2020/01/28)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
2019/05/01 - 2019/05/01 5th Joint Meeting Porto-Bordeaux 2019 (2019/05/01 - 2019/05/01)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
2017/11/01 - 2018/03/12 ICIAR 2018 Grand Challenge on Breast Cancer Histology images – 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (2018/06/27 - 2018/06/29)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2016/10/27 - 2016/10/28 BIOIMAGING 2016 - 5th International Symposium in applied Bioimaging – Disease in focus (2016/10/27 - 2016/10/28)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2016/09/12 - 2016/09/13 Formação técnica e médica na determinação do status da expressão do gene HER2 (2016/09/12 - 2016/09/13)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2015/11/05 - 2015/11/06 BIOIMAGING 2015 - 4th International Symposium in applied Bioimaging – The pre-clinical challenge in 3D (2015/11/05 - 2015/11/06)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024 GATA3 expression in renal cell tumours: association with oncocytoma and cromophobe renal cell carcinoma diagnosis and other clinicopathologic variables
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Renato Campos Bastos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2022 Insulinoma-associated protein I – diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic usage in small cell lung cancer
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Renato Cardoso da Rocha (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2019/11/18 Toxicidade da exposição profissional a formaldeído e a xilol nos laboratórios de anatomia patológica e patologia forense: utilização de reagentes alternativos
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Manuel Baptista do Vale (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2019/11/15 Characterization of HOXB7 and HOXB9 expression in breast cancer patients
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Andrade Mouta (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2016/06/12 Automatic classification of histologic grade in breast cancer
(Thesis) Main arguer
 EduardoMecaCastro (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015/03/23 Papel prognóstico da expressão de P-caderina no cancro da mama
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria João da Silva Serra (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020/01/01 - Current European Society of Pathology

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/07 - Current Co-Chair do grupo de trabalho em Patologia Digital e Computacional da Sociedade Europeia de Patologia
Coordinator
 European Society of Pathology, Belgium

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current SISTEMAS BIOFUNCIONAIS DO CORPO HUMANO II Medicina (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
2024/09 - Current MOLÉCULAS, CÉLULAS E DOENÇA II Medicina (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
2024/01 - Current SISTEMAS BIOFUNCIONAIS DO CORPO HUMANO I Medicina (Mestrado integrado) Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 Best paper of the year 2023
European Society of Pathology, Belgium
2016 Prémio Melhor Poster
Associação Luso-Galaica de Endocrinologia, Diabetes e Metabolismo, Portugal
2016 Prémio Melhor Poster
Roche Farmaceutica Quimica Lda, Portugal
2015 Prémio de Investigação Clínica
Sociedade Portuguesa de Endocrinologia, Diabetes e Metabolismo, Portugal
2011 Prémio Melhor Poster
Sociedade Portuguesa de Anatomia Patológica, Portugal

Other distinction

2013 Bolsa de Apresentação Oral
European Society of Pathology, Belgium