Nuno Sousa

Biography

  Nuno is a Full Professor at the School of Health Science. He is the Director of the Medical Degree at University of Minho. He serves at several medical education and medical assessment advisory boards, including the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) in the US and the European Board of Medical Assessors (EBMA).Nuno is a Neuro-radiologist and presently, he is the Director of the Clinical Academic Center at Hospital de Braga, where he coordinates and is involved in several national and international research projects. His main research interests are focused in the establishment of functional and structural correlations mediated by stress and aging and its implications in cognition and in neuropsychiatric disorders. Nuno is the coordinator of the Neuroscience Research Domain at ICVS/University of Minho, and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research articles. In addition to his academic and research merits, Nuno Sousa serves on several science policy and advisory board positions, and as an Ad hoc reviewer for various neuroscience journal and international funding organizations. He is Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience and Member of the Editorial Board of Molecular Neurodegeneration. Since May 2011 Nuno Sousa is also the President of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience. He has received various international prizes, such as the Grunenthal Prize in both 2003 and 2007, and the Janssen Neuroscience Prize 2012, amongst others.

Research Interest

Neuroscience