Prof. Ana Bela Sarmento, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor with Agregation at FMUC; Group Leader at CIMAGO; Investigator at CNC.IBILI and Clinical Hematologist at CHUC

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Ana Bela Sarmento Antunes da Cruz Ribeiro (MD, PhD) is Associate Professor with Aggregation in Hematology at Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), coordinator of the University Clinic of Hematology, supervisor of the Oncobiology and Hematology Laboratory at FMUC and specialist of hematology at Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC). She is the Regent teacher of the curricular units of Hematology and Applied Molecular Biology of the Medicine Course at FMUC and leader investigator of the Cell signaling, epidemiology, clinic and cancer therapy group at Center of Investigation on Environment Genetic and Oncobiology (CIMAGO). She is also an investigator integrated member in the consortium CNC.IBILI (Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology/Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences).
Ana Bela Sarmento Ribeiro obtained her MD degree at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Coimbra, in 1984, the PhD in 2002, and the aggregation in 2015. She completed her residency in Clinical Hematology, at CHUC, in 2004.
Ana Bela Sarmento Ribeiro had a long Medical and University career, as a teacher, investigator and medical doctor, and had been supervisor and/or co-supervisor of 16 PhD Thesis and 113 Master Thesis as well as coordinator of 33 Investigation Projects.
Her research is focusing on the study of molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in development and progression of cancer and in chemotherapy resistance, namely in hematological neoplasia’s, in particularly the role of oxidative stress, epigenetics, metabolic alterations and cellular signaling pathways; Identification of molecular new biomarkers relevant in cancer susceptibility, diagnosis, prognosis and in therapy response as well as the identification of new therapeutic targets.
She had published 68 full articles, 224 abstracts in international and national journals with peer review and 7 Book Chapters. She performed 92 invited talks in congresses and seminars, 460 congress communications (96 as oral and 364 as poster) and received 35 rises and awards.
She is member of several societies and scientific groups, namely the Portuguese and European Societies of Hematology (SPH and EHA) and the Portuguese Groups of Myelodysplasia and of Multiple Myeloma (GPM; GPMM).