Fernando Schmitt

• Full Professor and Director of Department of Pathology at the Medical Faculty of Porto University
• Director of RISE (Clinical and Translational Research Network), Associate Lab, FCT
• Director of RISE-Health, Research Unit, FCT
• Head of Molecular Pathology at IPATIMUP
• Past President of the International Academy of Cytology (IAC)
• More than 500 scientific publications. Total H-index: 92. H-index last 5 years: 47. 31646 citations
• Editor in Chief of Pathobiology and Associate Editor of six major scientific journals
• Editor of ten books and author of 47 book chapters
• Standing member of the WHO-IAC Classification of Tumours
• Member of the IARC Genetics and Genomics Subcommittee
• Awards: Educator of the Year 2011 by the PSC, GOLDBLATT AWARD 2013 by the IAC, Dario Cruz 2018 from the Portuguese League Against Cancer for his career as a researcher in breast cancer, and the 2021 International Achievement Award from the American Society of Cytopathology.