Alexandre Trindade

Background

About Alexandre Trindade

I am an Associate Professor at Egas Moniz, teaching a new generation of veterinary medicine students. I am responsible for organising the curricula and teaching in the fundamental sciences curricular units of the Master's Degree in Veterinary Medicine. I am also a researcher in Biomedical sciences with pre-clinical investigation experience and clinical research training. I am passionate about Healthcare innovation. I have deep scientific knowledge based on experience and critical reading of scientific literature; well-honed research and technical skills, including organisation and analytical interpretation of data with responsible conduct; and excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills. I have been principal investigator of five competitively funded research projects aiming at conducting pre-clinical trials of novel angioactive biopharmaceuticals in mouse models of breast and prostate cancer. I have mentored three Masters Student and two PhD students. I graduated in Microbiology and Genetics in 2002 and completed a PhD degree in 2008. In 2010 I received the 2nd prize in the MedImmune European Cancer Research Competition. Nationally, I received the UTL Young Researcher Award in 2009 and in 2011 I was distinguished with a Diploma of Scientific Merit awarded by the UTL Rector.