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Mariana Monteiro is a Full Professor at the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS) and General Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Unit (UMÎB) at the University of Porto. She graduated in Medicine in 1996 from the Faculty of Medicine of Porto and completed her specialty in Endocrinology in 2005 at the Hospital de Santo António, Porto. She obtained her PhD in Medicine with a thesis entitled "Mechanisms of gastro-intestinal hormone induced weight loss" from ICBAS, University of Porto, in 2007.


Mariana Monteiro has a particular interest in Diabetes and Obesity, in its clinical and basic research aspects centered on the role of gastro-intestinal hormones in the regulation of glycemic and energy homeostasis. As a Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Metabolic Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, directed by Prof. S. Bloom, a world reference in gastrointestinal hormones and appetite regulation, where she gained experience in basic research techniques in this area. She is currently coordinating a clinical and translational research team at UMIB, and as an endocrinologist she runs a Muldisciplinary Obesity Consultation and a Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Trials Center at Hospital da Luz.