CMSeminar | Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 13:00
Faculdade de Medicina | UCP | Campus de Sintra
The Católica Medical School of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa is organising the seminar "Familial Hypercholesterolemia – from genetics to functional genomics to personalised medicine", which will take place on 22 October.
Mafalda Bourbon, principal researcher at Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, will be speaking at this seminar, and António de Almeida will be leading the presentation.
Her main field of research is genetic dyslipidaemia with a special focus on Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) developing and applying methods to identify, functionally characterize and interpret variants found in clinical FH patients and other dyslipidaemia patients.