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Vice-rector for Research, Innovation, University of Aveiro, Portugal, President of the Clinical Academic Centre Egas Moniz Health Alliance

A. M. Silva is Full professor at the Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, President of the Portuguese Chemical Society and Vice-rector for Research, Innovation and 3rd Cycle. He published more than 750 SCI papers (> 16000 citations, h 56), 1 e-book, 50 book chapters, and 60 lectures. Prof. A. M. Silva supervised 31 PhD and 41 MSc students, and participated in 29 financed Portuguese and European projects. His research interests include chemistry (synthesis and transformations) of polyphenolic and nitrogen heterocycles; isolation and structural characterization of natural products from terrestrial and marine sources; and synthesis and biological evaluation of biologically active oxygen and nitrogen heterocyclic compounds. Prof. A. M. Silva is fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and of the Chemistry Europe, and Elect Correspondent Fellow of the Sciences Academy of Lisbon – Section of Chemistry, and President of Portuguese Society of Chemistry (2016-2023).

Department of Medical Sciences & CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Portugal

M. L. Pereira is Associate Professor with Habilitation at Department of Medical Sciences of UA. With more than 40 years of teaching experience and research in histology and cell biology, and as a member of the Associate Laboratory CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, research has been focussed on adverse effects of pesticides, nanomaterials and drugs on in vitro and pre-clinical models. As a member of the World Union for Herbal Drug Discovery, studies on natural products with biomedical applications have been done. She was President of the Portuguese Society of Electron Microscopy and Cell Biology (2004), Director of the Master in Molecular and Cellular Biology at UA (2008-2018) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London (2021), being a member of the Pathology Council. She published several papers in international journals, collaborates as editor and organized several international conferences, as the International Symposium on Integrative Medicine & Health, University of Aveiro, Portugal (2023). She received the Dr. Matthew A. Eichler Memorial Award Research Fellow by the Asia-Pacific Consortium of Researchers and Educators (2022), and was distinguished with three Pedagogical Innovation Awards, in co-authorship, at University of Aveiro.