Speaker

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes studied Veterinary Medicine at Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal and at Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. In 2002, he obtained a PhD in Immunology from Université René Descartes, Paris, France, before moving to the National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK, as a postdoc. In 2009, he set up his independent research group at Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal, and he served as member of the direction team from 2014 to 2016. In that year, Henrique Veiga-Fernandes joined the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Portugal, where he is currently a Group Leader and Research Director. Henrique Veiga-Fernandes made foundational discoveries in the areas of adaptive and innate immunity, more recently pioneering the area of peripheral neuro-immune interactions.

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