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Name:                                       Paulo de Carvalho Pereira

Date of birth:                            09/03/67

Institutional address :             Centre of Ophthalmology , University of Coimbra

Institute for Biomedical Research in light and Image   -IBILI

Faculty of Medicine

Azinhaga de Sta. Comba                                     

3000 Coimbra, Portugal

Telephone:                              351-239 - 480 230

Telefax:                                351-239 - 480 280

Email:                                 ppereira@ibili.uc.pt

Academic degrees    Field of study         Institution             Date

PhD                  Cell Biology            University of Coimbra        1996

BSc/MA                Biochemistry            University of Coimbra       1990

Present Position:   Director - Lab. Biology of Ageing, Center of Ophthalmology, IBILI – Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra - Since 1999

                                   

Previous positions:                    Visiting Scientist/ Assistant professor,

Tufts University, Boston                                     1999-2000

Post-Doc research fellow, UCL -London             1997-1999

Coordination of externally funded research projects (PI):

Project

Title

Year

FCT – POCTI

“Identification and phyisiological role of deubiquiting enzymes in the lens: A novel function for ubiquitin”

2002-2005

FCT – POCTI

“Filling in the GAP: the missing link between intercellular communication and diabetic retinopathy”

2005-2008

FCT – POCTI

“What HIF? Degradation is better than growth in preventing angiogenesis”

2005-2008

RNEM REDE/1510/RME/2005

“Molecular mechanisms of cell damage and ageing”

2005-2008

IA – Instituto de Artes

“Blindspot – An interdisciplinary project about perception”

2005

in Lens Epithelial Cells.   FASEB J. 2004, 18:1424-6.

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