“Being an ambassador for the BIAL Foundation is having the responsibility of representing a leading institution in the support of scientific research. I assume this commitment with a sense of duty, convinced of the importance of the U.Porto for the mission of the BIAL Foundation.”
Rector of the University of Porto since 2018, after serving for 14 years as Dean of the Abel Salazar School for Biomedical Sciences, António de Sousa Pereira has dedicated his entire career to the practice and teaching of Medicine.
Physician and Full Professor of Anatomy before being elected Rector, he was a member of several national and international bodies in the field of Health and Life Sciences, namely the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences, under the auspices of the Portuguese Parliament.
In 2020, its peers elected António de Sousa Pereira as president of the Council of Rectors, the coordinating body of the Portuguese universities and the national representative in the Council of the European University Association.
Photo credits: Egidio Santos/U.Porto
