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Team & Partners

We believe collaboration is the key to achieve fresh thinking and better results.

Management Team

Manuel Santos

Scientific Director

Ana Sofia Varanda

Chief Executive Officer

Rosa Sancho

Chief Operating Officer

Maria João Freitas

Communication Manager

Luís Simões

IT Specialist

Sandra Pimenta

Secretary

Joana Dias

Secretary

Vera Silva

Secretary
The Installation Commitee was in place until the scientific director took office in april 2022.
installation_commitee.pdf (61 kB)

Research Team

Aging Brain Group

Ira Milosevic

Principal Investigator
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Célia Aveleira

Assistant Researcher

Ivan Lalanda

Assistant Researcher

Roberto Dias

Assistant Researcher

Ana Caulino

PhD Student

Filipa Silva

PhD Student

Ricardo Casqueiro

PhD Student

Rita Gaspar

Laboratory Technician

Organelle Crosstalk in Aging and Disease Group

Nuno Raimundo

Principal Investigator
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Carla Lopes

Assistant Researcher

Neuza Domingues

Assistant Researcher

Pedro Dionísio

Assistant Researcher

Vilma Sardão

Assistant Researcher

Patrícia Coelho

PhD Student

Joana Pires

Laboratory Technician

Advanced Cell Technology Group

Hugo Fernandes

Principal Investigator
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Cláudia Deus

Assistant Researcher

Cristina Blanco

Assistant Researcher

Daniel Carvalho

Master Student

Ana Nobre

Laboratory Technician

Fly Cab Group

Alessio Vagnoni

Principal Investigator
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Synapse Architecture Group

Joana Ferreira

Principal Investigator
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João Martins

Researcher

MemBRAIN: neuronal surface biology Group

Luís Ribeiro

Principal Investigator
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Beatriz Marques

Researcher

Jeannette Smith

Researcher

João Machado

Researcher

Alejandra Torres

PhD Student

Beatriz Ribeiro

PhD Student

Marco Candeia´s Group

Marco Candeias

Principal Investigator
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ERA Chair Holder Group

Lino Ferreira

Principal Investigator
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Alumni

Sandra Anjo, Assistant Researcher

Sara Silva, Assistant Researcher

Lia Carvalhais, Assistant Researcher

Mónica Abreu, Assistant Researcher

Supporting Groups

UC Supporting Groups with activities in ageing

Neuroendocrinology and Aging

Cláudia Cavadas

MitoLab: Mitochondrial Signaling and Metabolic Dysfunction

Carlos Palmeira

Neuromodulation

Rodrigo Cunha

Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Diseases

Henrique Girão

UC Supporting Groups with potential overlapping interests

Biology of Reproduction & Stem Cell

João Ramalho-Santos

Medical Microbiology

Teresa Gonçalves

Vectors, Gene and Cell Therapy

Luís Pereira Almeida

Mitochondria and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Ana Cristina Rego

Redox Biology and Brain Sensing

João Laranjinha

Cell Signaling and Metabolism in Disease

Teresa Cruz

Mitochondria, Metabolism and Disease

Paulo Oliveira

Vision Diseases

António Francisco Ambrósio

Imaging

Miguel Castelo-Branco

Partners

Coimbra Team
MIA-Portugal team includes the key stakeholders in ageing and age-related research/activity located in Coimbra.

University of Coimbra

Innovation and business in health

Instituto Pedro Nunes

Biocant Park

Regional Authority

Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro

International partners

University Medical Centre Groningen

Newcastle University

Mayo Clinic

University of Copenhagen

Committes & Boards

International Advisory Board

Responsible to advise the Installation Committee on the key decisions of the implementation of MIA-Portugal, continuously providing strategic scientific advice, unbiased external opinion, and support with a role of Ambassador.

Carol Barnes

Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

James Kirkland

Director of Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

Folkert Kuipers

Former Dean, Professor of Pediatrics and chair holder Healthy Life Alliance Named Professorship at University of Groningen University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Marian Joëls

Dean of Medical Sciences University Medical Center Groningen , Groningen, The Netherlands

João Passos

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

Lene Rasmussen

Director of Centre for Healthy Ageing University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Felipe Sierra

Director of the Division of Aging Biology National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, USA

Thomas von Zglinicki

Scientific Director of Newcastle University Institute of Ageing Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

Björn Schumacher

Executive Board of Cluster of Excellence Cluster in Ageing (CECAD) University of Cologne President of the German Society for Ageing Research DGfA, Germany

Advocacy Committee

MIA-Portugal Advocacy Committee is a board of advisors emerging from the Civil Society, including distinguished Citizens (including Senior Citizens) and representatives from Patient Association Organizations and Industry. Main functions: to foster opportunities for funding, new partnerships and endeavours; to potentiate the societal impact of the project; to exploit partnerships with wealthy private foundations. The activities of the AC will be paramount to the attraction of external funds.

Ana Abrunhosa

Former President of Centro Region of Portugal Minister of Cohesion, Portugal

Artur Santos Silva

Curator of La Caixa Foundation and Honorary Chairman of BPI UC Alumnus, Portugal

David Sinclair

Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, USA

Isabel Saraiva

President of Respira - Portuguese Association of People with COPD and other Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Chair of ELF - European Lung Foundation, Portugal

Luís Portela

Chairman of BIAL Professor Honoris Causa, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Maria de Belém Roseira

Former Minister of Health Deputy of Portuguese Parliament of Portugal UC Alumnus

Remy Quirion

Chief Scientist of Quebec at the Ministére de l’ Économie de la Science et de l’Innovation, Canada

Ethics Advisory Board

Closely follows and monitors all activities of MIA-Portugal to scrutinize and advise on all aspects where ethical questions may arise.

Alexandrina Ferreira Mendes

Faculty of Pharmacy University of Coimbra

André Dias Pereira

Director of Center for Biomedical Law, Faculty of Law University of Coimbra

Duarte Nuno Vieira

Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

Francisco Ambrósio

Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

Joaquim Murta

Faculty of Medicine University of Coimbra