Scientific Highlights

1. Alzheimer Association Best Mentor award in Neuroscience 2021; 2. Foundation Jerome Lejeune Research grant 2017; 3. Janssen Prize 2016 for the best Basic Research; 4. Scientific board member the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP); 5.Publication: Guerreiro S, Guimarães M, Silva JM, Dioli D, Vamvaka-Iakovou A, Gomes P, Megalokonomou A, Campos-Marques C, Sousa N, Leite-Almeida H, Sotiropoulos I* “Chronic pain causes Tau-dependent hippocampal pathology and memory deficits” Mol Psychiatry 2022 in press; 6. Publicaiton: Dioli C, Patrício P, Pinto LG, Marie C, Morais M, Vyas S, Bessa JM, Pinto L, Sotiropoulos I* “Adult neurogenic process in the subventricular zone-olfactory bulb system is regulated by Tau protein under prolonged stress.” Cell Prolif. 2021 54(7):e13027. doi: 10.1111/cpr.13027; 7. Publication: Zhuravleva V, Vaz-Silva J, Zhu M, Gomes P, Silva JM, Sousa N, Sotiropoulos I, Waites CL. “Rab35 and glucocorticoids regulate APP and BACE1 trafficking to modulate Aβ production.” Cell Death Dis. 2021 12(12):1137. doi: 10.1038/s41419-021-04433-w; 8. Publication: Monteiro-Fernandes D, Silva JM, Soares-Cunha C, Dalla C, Kokras N, François A, Billiras R, Bretin S, Sousa N, Sotiropoulos I* “Allosteric modulation of AMPA receptors counteracts Tau-related excitotoxic synaptic signaling and memory deficits in Stress and Aβ-evoked hippocampal pathology” Molecular Psychiatry 2020 May 28. doi: 10.1038/s41380-020-0794-5;