Biography

Francisco Jose Nunes Antunes received MD and PhD certificates from University of Lisbon. He completed his training in Infectious Diseases at the Hospital de Santa Maria, and in Tropical Medicine at the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, in Lisbon. He was Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Hospital de Santa Maria, and Full Professor of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine of Lisbon, and Full Professor of Parasitology at the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical. Currently he is member of the Instituto de Saude Ambiental at the School of Medicine at the Universidade de Lisboa, and collaborate with the School of Medicine of the University Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo- Mocambique) ant the Hospital Dr. Ayres de Menezes (Ministry of Health -S. Tome e Principe) in the fields of HIV and Hepatitis (research and training). He was President of the European Conference of HIV (EACS 1999), European Congress on Tropical Medicine and Tropical Health (2002), and International Congress of Infectious Diseases 2006), and member of several International and European Conferences on HIV, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. His scientific and research interests include Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Tropical Medicine. He is author and co-author of more than 150 articles on peer reviewed biomedical journals.

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Research Interest

Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Tropical Medicine