Maria Carmo-Fonseca#
| Membership Number: | 6251 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | PORTUGAL |
| Homepage(s): | https://imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt/investigation/laboratories/maria-carmo-fonseca-lab/#intro |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3402-7143 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - present Full Professor, University of Lisbon Medical School
- 2014 - present President of Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
- 2001 - 2014 Executive Director of Instituto de Medicina Molecular
- 2009 - 2015 Director of the Harvard Medical School-Portugal Program
- 2011 - 2013 Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School
- 1989 - 1992 Post-doctoral fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1983 - 1988 PhD student, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA in disease
- Cell and molecular biology
- RNA and gene regulation
- Pre-mRNA splicing
Honours and Awards
- 2019 - 2021 Elected one of the most influential women in Portugal
- 2018 Prémio Aboim Sande Lemos-Identidade Portuguesa (national award)
- 2013 Prémio D. Antónia Ferreira (Portuguese award for Entrepreneurial women)
- 2010 Prémio Pessoa (Portuguese award in Culture, Art and Sciences)
- 2007 Gulbenkian Science Award (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal)
- 2002 Pfizer Research Prize (Portugal)
- 2002 Iberian DuPont Science Award
- 2001 Comenda Ordem de Sant’iago de Espada Ilustres Carreira (national award)
- 2000 Elected member of Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
- 1999 Elected member of Academia Portuguesa de Medicina
- 1994 Elected member of European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1993 José Sala-Trepat Prize, Fondation de France/Institut Pasteur, Paris
