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Horizons of the future

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The "Horizons of the Future" Cycle of the month of October is scheduled for next Thursday, at 9.30 pm, at the Loulé Palace Hall, and will be invited by Alexandre Quintanilha to present a conference on "Challenges present in biomedicine. "

Alexandre Quintanilha was born in 1945 and completed high school in Lourenço Marques (Maputo), Mozambique. He received his doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg in 1972.
He spent the next two decades at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a professor of Cellular Physiology and Biophysics, deputy director of the Applied Sciences Division and director of the Center for Atmospheric and Biospheric Effects of Technology.
He went to Porto as a Biophysics professor at ICBAS-UP in the early 1990's. He was, until 2010, the director and founder of IBMC and president of INEB. He then presided over the group responsible for the implementation of the i3S consortium, which in addition to these two institutes, also integrates the IPATIMUP.
She is a member of several international academies and has chaired various committees of the ESF, the OECD, the European Commission (Marie Curie, ELSA, member of EURAB and STAC) and other international research organizations. He is currently president of the Ethics Commission for Clinical Research (CEIC) in Portugal. He is also president of the School Council of the ENSP-UNL and the Advisory Board of the Hospital Magalhães de Lemos.
He has been a deputy for the PS in the Assembly of the Republic and has chaired the Commission on Education and Science since 2015. He has a vast published work of scientific articles and books. His current interests are in the areas of biological stress, risk perception and knowledge dissemination.
This conference has free entrance.

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