Catarina Resende de Oliveira

Oliveira became head of clinical neurology and head of the biochemistry course at the University of Coimbra in 1988. Her research has focussed on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection, emphasising the interaction between research and the clinical treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. She has coordinated several scientific projects, including on the mechanisms of brain ageing and dementia, and on the relationship between diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases. Most recently she led a research group dedicated to advanced diagnosis and identification of biomarkers of ageing and brain diseases, part of a European consortium working in this area. Oliveira is a consultant in neurology at the Neurological Clinic of the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (Coimbra University Hospital - CHUC), a member of the Alzheimer Portugal scientific committee and president of the Portuguese Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation (AICIB). She coordinates the consortium that brings together the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology and the Instituto Biomédico de Investigação em Luz e Imagem (Biomedical Institute for Research in Light and Image - IBILI). In addition, she has supervised 19 PhD and 17 master's theses, including Ana Cristina Rego, with whom she frequently collaborates on journal articles.

Catarina Resende de Oliveira (born 1946) is a Portuguese neurologist, researcher, university professor, and doctor. A full professor of biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, she studies the processes that cause neurological degeneration responsible for illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

Catarina Isabel Neno Resende de Oliveira was born in February 1946 in Coimbra, Portugal. Her father was professor of medicine at the University of Coimbra. She took a degree in medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, completing the course in 1970. She then became an assistant at the Faculty. After completing a doctorate in neurology (psychiatry) in 1984, she joined the university's Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, an organization of which she would be president between 2003 and 2014.