M.D. in 1987 – Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto (FMUP). Transfusion Medicine specialist since 1996. PhD in 7/2017 with summa cum laude in Metabolism by FMUP. Direction and foundation of a Transfusion Service in a district Hospital in the North of Portugal between 1998 and 2003. Consultant in Transfusion Medicine since 2005 in a Central, academic Hospital in Porto: Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP). Member of the Hepatic and Reno pancreatic Transplantation Team of CHUP since 1997 and 2000 respectively. Coordinator of the Clinical Hematology Transplantation team from 2008 till 2011. Coordinator of virus markers in the blood bank of CHUP from 2003 till 2012. Since 2012 consultant in Thrombosis and Haemostasis of Clinical Haematology department of CHUP.
https://umib.icbas.up.pt/fernanda-leite/
UMIB Integrated PhD researcher
Professor of Medicine at ICBAS - Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto

Current Research Interests
• Catecholamines (CA) signaling in the regulation of immunometabolism
• Monocyte dopaminergic pathways in immunometabolism
• CA pathways in immunomodulation of inflammatory conditions such ageing, obesity and cancer
• CA pathways in the relationship between inflammation and thrombosis

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