Fátima Baltazar
Fátima Baltazar is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, University of Minho (Portugal), Principal Investigator at ICVS (Life and Health Sciences Research Institute), Coordinator of the Cancer Biomarkers and Therapeutics (BiTCancer) team and Vice-Director of ICVS. She holds a First degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), PhD in Biological Sciences by the University of Hull (U.K.).
Her main research interests are on cancer glucose metabolism, focusing on the discovery of new prognostic metabolic biomarkers and cancer therapeutic targets (especially monocarboxylate transporters – MCTs), and more recently on drug discovery.
Fátima Baltazar is co-author of 160 international peer-reviewed research articles and 12 book chapters, and edited 2 books. She is (co-)inventor of 2 international patent applications (pending), has a h-index of 44 (Scopus) and about 6,000 citations. She has more that 30 national and international talks as invited speaker.
Fátima Baltazar successfully supervised/co-supervised 12 post-doc projects, 16 PhD thesis, 25 Master theses and many undergraduate projects. She has attracted direct competitive funding for ICVS, at national and international levels. She is invited grant evaluator of different international funding agencies. Fátima Baltazar was board member of the International Society of Cancer Metabolism (ISCaM) and founding member of the Portuguese Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SPNCM). She is member of the Editorial Board of several international journals, and member of different national and international organizations, including ASPIC (Portuguese Association for Cancer Research), EACR (European Association for Cancer Research) and ISCaM.
