Tiago F. Outeiro

Prof. Tiago Outeiro graduated in Biochemistry at the University of Porto and was an Erasmus student at the University of Leeds in the UK. Prof. Outeiro did his PhD thesis at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical research – MIT and worked at FoldRx Pharmaceuticals as a Research Scientist and Consultant. Prof. Outeiro was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology of the Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard Medical School where he focused on the study of Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Prof. Outeiro directed the Cell and Molecular Neuroscience Unit at IMM, Lisbon, from 2007 to 2014, and was Full Professor and the Director of the Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration at the University Medical Center Goettingen, in Germany, between 2010 and 2026. Prof. Outeiro is now the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of the Algarve, Portugal. Prof. Outeiro has authored >400 research articl