SofÃa Duarte
Collaborator
Neurologist in Lisbon.
1st All Saints Home Health Service LLC
Spain
Biography
She received her MD from the Faculty of Medicine at Coimbra University, Portugal. During 2007 she completed the Neuroscience and Behaviour Biology Master from Pablo de Ollavide University, Spain. She became interested in biomedical and translational research during Neurology residence, after working in Hospital San Joan de Déu, Barcelona. She did her Neurology residency in Lisbon and then decided to become a Neuropediatrics specialist. She integrated the Neurology research laboratory at hospital San Joan de Déu and developed a research project for the study of epileptic encephalopathies of the first year of life, using a cerebrospinal fluid proteomic approach. In 2011 she was admitted in the Programme for Advanced Medical Education of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and she is currently working at Instituto de Medicina Molecular,
Research Interest
research interest are neurodevelopmental disorders with epilepsy and autism like Rett Syndrome and early epileptic encephalopathies. She is developing cellular models for the study of these disorders.
