Fernando Schmitt
Fernando Schmitt
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Research Group: Charter: Challenges and Strategies in Health Research
Thematic Line: TL1 – Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Cytopathology and Molecular Pathology.

Updated on 09/02/2019

Fernando Schmitt is a CINTESIS integrated researcher working in the group Charter of the Thematic Line 1 – Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges.

He earned his Ph.D. from the Paulista State University (UNESP) in 1990. He is a Professor of Pathology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), leader of the Molecular Pathology Unit in IPATIMUP, President of the Portuguese Society of Cytology, President of the International Society of Mammary Pathology, and President-elect and Secretary-General of the International Academy of Cytology (IAC). He is one of the most renowned specialists in Cytopathology and Breast Pathology worldwide, with more than 500 articles in scientific journals and books on breast cancer, Cytopathology and Molecular Pathology.

He was the Director of the National Health Laboratory of Luxembourg for two years, leading more than 200 people and actively participating in the definition of public health policies in that country. In the last decade, he was distinguished with three major awards, two of which from international institutions.

TITLE: The Role of Telecytology in the Primary Diagnosis of Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration Specimens
AUTHORS: Sule Canberk; Kemal Behzatoglu; Can K Caliskan; Serkan Gelmez; Kerem C Kayhan; Selin F Aydemir; Meryem Akbas; Isil Yildiz; Ricardo Veiga; Nusaiba Alrefae; Umit Ince; Fernando C Schmitt;
SOURCE: ACTA CYTOLOGICA, VOLUME: 64, ISSUE: 4, PUBLICATION: 2020

TITLE: Current applications of molecular testing on body cavity fluids
AUTHORS: Daniel Pinto; Fernando Schmitt;
SOURCE: DIAGNOSTIC CYTOPATHOLOGY, VOLUME: 48, ISSUE: 9, PUBLICATION: 2020

TITLE: Predictive molecular pathology in the time of COVID-19
AUTHORS: Umberto Malapelle; Caterina De Luca; Antonino Iaccarino; Francesco Pepe; Pasquale Pisapia; Maria Russo; Roberta Sgariglia; Mariantonia Nacchio; Elena Vigliar; Claudio Bellevicine; Fernando C Schmitt; Giancarlo Troncone;
SOURCE: Journal of Clinical Pathology, PUBLICATION: 2020

TITLE: DNA Methylation Markers for Breast Cancer Detection in the Developing World
AUTHORS: Bradley M Downs; Claudia Mercado Rodriguez; Ashley Cimino Mathews; Chuang Chen; Jing Ping Yuan; Eunice Van Den Berg; Leslie M Cope; Fernando Schmitt; Gary M Tse; Syed Z Ali; Danielle Meir Levi; Rupali Sood; Juanjuan J Li; Andrea L Richardson; Marina B Mosunjac; Monica Rizzo; Suzana Tulac; Kriszten J Kocmond; Timothy de Guzman; Edwin W Lai; …Mais
SOURCE: CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH, VOLUME: 25, ISSUE: 21, PUBLICATION: 2019

TITLE: Navigator-3, a modulator of cell migration, may act as a suppressor of breast cancer progression
AUTHORS: Hadas Cohen Dvashi; Nir Ben Chetrit; Roslin Russell; Silvia Carvalho; Mattia Lauriola; Sophia Nisani; Maicol Mancini; Nishanth Nataraj; Merav Kedmi; Lee Roth; Wolfgang Koestler; Amit Zeisel; Assif Yitzhaky; Jacques Zylberg; Gabi Tarcic; Raya Eilam; Yoav Wigelman; Rainer Will; Sara Lavi; Ziv Porat; …Mais
SOURCE: EMBO MOLECULAR MEDICINE, VOLUME: 7, ISSUE: 3, PUBLICATION: 2015

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