Aurea Lima
University of Porto , Portugal
Biography
Aurea Lima was born at 10th October of 1979. She completed Pharmaceutical Sciences degree in 2004 at CESPU, the Master degree in Medicine and Molecular Oncology in 2007 at Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), the Doctor Degree in Medical Sciences in 2014 at Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, and this year she completed the Integrated Master Course in Medicine at ICBAS.
Aurea Lima was the first Portuguese researcher to be honored by the Scientific Committee on International Congress Anti-Cancer Treatment) for her research work in the area of genetic polymorphisms of TYMS (thymidylate synthase) and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Her PhD work, developed in ​​Molecular Oncology and Viral Pathology Group at Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Porto, demonstrates the influence of polymorphisms in genes encoding for proteins involved on Methotrexate action mechanism in the therapeutic outcome of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients under Methotrexate therapy.
With fifteen papers in Scientific Journals with International Circulation, she is currently Professor and Researcher at Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada em Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde, CESPU