ICVS Advanced Seminars “Decoding the host-environment crosstalk in pulmonary fibrosis: advancing precision medicine”

Hélder Novais-Bastos, Pulmonologist, Physician-scientist in interstitial lung diseases, and head of Interventional Pulmonology Unit of Hospital de São João

“Decoding the host-environment crosstalk in pulmonary fibrosis: advancing precision medicine”

Hélder obtained a degree in Medicine in 2008 by Nova Medical School, and in 2009, he joined ICVS to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in host-pathogen interaction during different stages of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, having concluded his PhD in 2017. Presently, Helder is a Pulmonologist at Hospital São João, where he coordinates the interventional pulmonology and endoscopy unit, and leads a research project with biobank (FIBRALUNG) at the major Interstitial Lung Diseases unit of the country. He is now mainly focused on studying the underlying molecular pathways of sarcoidosis and pulmonary fibrosis. He also divides his time as Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto (FMUP), and physician-scientist at the Immune Regulation research group at i3S.