“My connection to the BIAL Foundation has several tangible and intangible dimensions, both in supporting research projects in cognitive neuroscience and in the holistic inspiration it has brought to my research through its Symposia.”
Miguel Castelo-Branco was born in Coimbra in 1967 where he graduated in Medicine. He attended the doctoral program in Medicine and Biology of Gulbenkian Foundation and did his PhD work at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research. He was Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Maastricht, where he is currently an Affiliate Professor, and Researcher at the Max-Planck Institute.
He won the Grande Prémio BIAL de Medicina, in 2009 and in 2011 he was distinguished as Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. He also won the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Obstbaum Award, as well as the FLAD Life Sciences Award and 2 Pfizer Awards, among other distinctions.
He is coordinator of the National Brain Imaging Network and responsible for several national and European projects, including translational research involving clinical trials in the areas of brain medical devices in neurodevelopmental diseases. He is Vice-President of the Patient Association (APPDA-Coimbra) and has entrepreneurial experience. He has been part of several organizing committees of the BIAL Foundation Symposia and was a BIAL Foundation scholarship holder in several projects.
