CCMAR Inspire Seminars, organized by CCMAR Seminars Committee with the aim to invite inspiring personalities with topics related or not with science, that are of general interest. The idea is to open beyond the science and academic realm, to the general public as well.
The first session of 2025 will be held on the 17th of January by Professor António Coutinho focusing on the The most important Biomedical questions today.
Professor António Coutinho graduated from his medical degree in 1969 from the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Lisbon.
Unlike most medical graduates who went on to practice medicine, António went on to do a PhD in Medical Microbiology from the Karolinska Institute, graduating in 1974, Sweden, after which he joined, as a researcher, the Immunology Institute of Basel, Switzerland, from 1975 to 1979. He was then nominated professor and director of the Immunology Department of the Faculty of medicine from University of Umea, Sweden, between 1979 and 1984.
In 1980, he joined the scientific staff of the French National Center for Scientific Research III (CNRS), to create the Immunobiology Unit at the Institute Pasteur in Paris, which he directed from 1982-1998. He was also Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the University of São Paulo, having been elected Professor of General Pathology at the University of Geneva (1982) and appointed Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lund (1987).
During his scientific career he received several prizes and distinctions and is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), of the Portuguese Academy of Medicine, foreign member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Member of the Portuguese Society of Immunology and President of the Society of Medical Sciences of Lisbon since 2006.
Professor António directed the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência from 1998 to 2012. In 2012 he was appointed coordinating member of the National Council of Science and Technology, and is a visiting professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. During his time at the IGC he created the IGC PhD programmes, together with Professor Alexandre Quintanilha and Paulo Vieira that established an innovative way of training a new generation of integrated biologists, that boosted the field as we have today in Portugal.
We would like to invite you to this session, relevant to the industry and the society. Let’s bridge science and policy and work together.
Join us on the 17th of january, at 15h00 in Gambelas Campus Green Auditorium.
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