Research Group: iGO – Health Technology Assessment in Gastrointestinal Oncology
Thematic Line: TL2 – Clinical & Translational Research addresses
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Surgery, Microbiology, Cardiac and Cardiovascular System
updated on 19/03/2018
Pedro Pimentel Nunes is a member of the research group iGO – Thematic Line 2 – Clinical and Translational Research.
He graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), and completed the Doctoral Program in Clinical Research and Health Services in the same institution with the thesis “Role of innate immunity receptors toll-like 2 and 4 in gastrointestinal diseases”.
He began his clinical practice at the Hospital of São João as Resident Medical Intern, but is was at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology do Porto (IPO-Porto) where he eventually specialized in Gastroenterology.
He has authored more than 70 scientific articles and since 2010, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the GE – Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology.
Also noteworthy is the fact that he was the winner of the Pfizer Award 2016 – Clinical Research with the work “A multicenter prospective study of the real-time use of narrow-band imaging in the diagnosis of premalignant gastric conditions and lesions”.
Currently, he works as a hospital Medical Assistant Doctor at IPO-Porto and is a Guest Professor at FMUP.
TITLE: Attenuation of Toll-Like Receptor 2 Activation in Alcoholic Chronic Liver Disease: A Mechanism for Acquired Immunodeficiency?
AUTHORS: Pedro Pimentel Nunes ; Roberto Roncon Albuquerque; Nadia Goncalves; Catia F Fernandes Cerqueira; Helder Cardoso; Rui P Bastos; Margarida Marques; Jose A Sarmento; Carlos Costa Santos; Mario J Dinis Ribeiro ; Adelino F Leite Moreira;
SOURCE: Digestive Disease Week/110th Annual Meeting of the American-Gastroenterological-Association in GASTROENTEROLOGY,VOLUME: 136, ISSUE: 5, PUBLISHED: 2009
TITLE: M1722 Attenuation of Toll-Like Receptor 2 Activation in Alcoholic Chronic Liver Disease: A Mechanism for Acquired Immunodeficiency?
AUTHORS: Pedro Pimentel-Nunes ; Roberto Roncon-Albuquerque Jr; Nádia Gonçalves; Cátia F Fernandes-Cerqueira; Hélder Cardoso; Rui P Bastos; Margarida Marques; José A Sarmento; Carlos Costa-Santos; Mario J Dinis-Ribeiro; Adelino F Leite-Moreira;
SOURCE: Gastroenterology, VOLUME: 136, ISSUE: 5, PUBLISHED: 2009
TITLE: COX-2 Polymorphisms in Colorectal Carcinogenesis: A Strategy for Individualized Chemoprevention
AUTHORS: Carina Pereira ; Pedro Pimentel Nunes ; Catarina Brandao; Luis Moreira Dias; Rui M Medeiros; Mario J Dinis Ribeiro ;
SOURCE: Digestive Disease Week/110th Annual Meeting of the American-Gastroenterological-Association in GASTROENTEROLOGY,VOLUME: 136, ISSUE: 5, PUBLISHED: 2009
TITLE: Angiotensin II-Induced increase in myocardial distensibility is modulated by the endocardial endothelium, endothelin-1 and nitric oxide
AUTHORS: Paulo M Castro Chaves; Pedro Pimentel Nunes ; Ricardo Fontes Carvalho; Joao B Soares; Joao Martins; Adelino Leite Moreira ;
SOURCE: 56th Annual Scientific Session of the American-College-of-Cardiology in JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY, VOLUME: 49, ISSUE: 9, PUBLISHED: 2007
TITLE: Angiotensin II acutely increases diastolic distensibility: A protein kinase C and Na(+)/H(+) exchanger-mediated effect
AUTHORS: Castro Chaves, PM; Pimentel Nunes, P ; Fontes Carvalho, R; Lima Carneiro, A; Scares, JB; Leite Moreira, A ;
SOURCE: 55th Annual Scientific Session of the American-College-of-Cardiology in JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY, VOLUME: 47, ISSUE: 4, PUBLISHED: 2006