Carlota Saldanha
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Biography
Carlota Saldanha is the Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Unit of Institute of Molecular Medicine João Lobo Antunes, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. She is a Member of the European Society for Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation (ESCHM); Coordinating Committee and Editorial Board of the Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation; Strategic Group of the European Society for Microcirculation; President of Sociedade Portuguesa de Hemorreologia e Microcirculação and Collaborator of CEMAT–Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics of FCT. She has done basic and clinical research on Biochemistry: membrane properties, cell function, enzymology, metabolism, signal transduction. Her research interests include applied hemorheology and microcirculation, inflammation, erythrocyte signal transduction mechanism, fibrinogen binding, nitric oxide metabolism and signal transduction.