Apresentação Pessoal

Celia Azevedo Soares MD-PhD is a clinical geneticist working with patients with inherited disorders, who collaborates with research projects related to Human Genetics and Neurodevelopment.
She performed her PhD thesis in the development of the earliest projections from the eye to the brain, and retinal neurogenesis, at the Mason Lab, Columbia University, as a visiting MD/PhD student from Minho University. For her PhD, she was awarded an individual PhD fellowship from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. She also completed a 2-years postgraduation in methods of clinical research with Harvard Medical School – Portugal and a postgraduation in Global Health with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She has been an active member of multiple professional societies including the European MD/PhD Association, Portuguese Post Graduate Society, and Young Geneticists Network. Presently, she is a member of the EduComm of the European Society of Human Genetics.