Leonor Saúde, PhD
Principal Investigator at iMM, Invited Associate Professor at Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "The ideal tissue microenvironment for spinal cord repair and regeneration"
Session I - Stem Cells: Tools for Developmental Biology
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BioLeonor Saúde studied Biology at Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. In 1996, she obtained a Master in Biochemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal. In 2001, she obtained a PhD in Developmental Biology from University College London, UK.
In 2002, Leonor Saúde returned to Portugal for a postdoc at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras. In 2005, she set up her independent research group at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and in 2008 she mover her lab to Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, where she also serves as the Head of the Fish Facility since then and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Training Hub since 2016. Leonor Saúde is an Invited Associate Professor at Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa, where she teaches Histology and Developmental Biology since 2003. Leonor Saúde won the Pfizer Prize for Basic Science (2005), the Fundación La Caixa Award (2019) and the Santa Casa Neurosciences Award (2020). She is a member of the Scientific Committee of TechnoZeb - TechnoPhage, SA since 2008 and a member of the Executive Board of the European Zebrafish Society (EZS) since 2016. Leonor Saúde is co-founder of the Portuguese Society for Developmental Biology (SPBD), where she served as Secretary (2011-2013), Vice-President (2013-2015) and President (2015-2017). Leonor Saúde is a member of the Consultive Commission of Maratona da Saúde, a fundraising initiative launched in 2014 and she is co-founder and Vice-President of Associação Viver a Ciência, a science outreach initiative launched in 2004. |