Maria Joao Saraiva

Maria Saraiva currently holds a number of positions at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal: She is Vice Director at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC); a Professor of Biochemistryat the Biomedical Institute; and Director of the Molecular Neurobiology Group at the IBMC. She worked for different periods as a Visiting Scientist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, New York. Maria J Saraiva was awarded the Seiva Prize for Services to Science by the City of Porto, in 1996, and the Gulbenkian Prize in Science, in 2009. She has published over 180 articles in peer reviewed journals, several reviews on the subject of Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy and the Biology of Transthyretin. She did a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Porto, and qualified as Professor of Biochemistry in 1991.