Cidália Pina-Vaz
University of Porto, Portugal
Biography
Cidália Pina-Vaz (Portuguese, born in 1964) has completed her medical course at Porto School of Medicine where she became specialist in Clinical Pathology; she has completed her PhD in Microbiology and is actually Assistant Professor at the same Medical School. She belongs to the board of some Medical societies and to some editorial journals. She has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals, book Chapters and received some important prizes. She is one of the founders of FASTinov, a spin-off of Porto University, with the objective of transference of technology, developed during her research, to the market.