Nuno Sousa

Nuno Sousa (NS) is Full Professor and Rector at UniFAJ and UniMAX, São Paulo, Brazil. NS is a Medical doctor, NeuroRadiologist. Presently, he is the President of AICIB (the Portuguese Agency for Clinical Research and Biomedical Innovation). He was one the founders of the School of Medicine at the University of Minho, and he was the President of the School of Medicine (2017-2022). We was the Director of the Clinical Academic Center at Hospital de Braga (until 2024) and of the Medical Digital Center P5 (unitl 2025). NS served at several medical education and medical assessment advisory boards (NBME, EuroBMA). NS is a neuroscientist. He was the Coordinator of the Neuroscience Research Domain at ICVS/University of Minho. His research main interests are focused in the establishment of functional and structural correlations mediated by stress and its implications in neuropsychiatric disorders. Detailed assessment of neuroplastic events, incorporation of newly generated cells into neuronal networks, rearrangements of established dendritic and synaptic contacts, combined with behavioural, neurochemical and electrophysiogical, optogenetic and molecular biology and (epi)genetics correlates have been established in his laboratory; the work from the lab covers from basic to clinical research and several modulatory interventions have also been described in order to promote recovery of structure and function in neuronal tissues. Editorial: Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience; Member of the Editorial Board of Molecular Neurodegeneration, Neurobiology of Stress, Neuropharmacology Scientific Societies: Past-President of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience Member of Society for Neuroscience Past-President of the Scientific Council of Life and Health Sciences of FCT (Portuguese Science Foundation) Member of Bial Foundation Chief Medical Officer of Pathena, SA