Speaker: Professor Miguel Soares, the Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM), Portugal

Title: From manuscript to impact: navigating high-impact publishing and an academic career
Time: 12 November 2026, 15:15-16:15
Location: Säätiö, Medisiina D

About the speaker:

Professor Miguel Soares earned his Ph.D. in Science from the University of Louvain in Belgium in 1995. He worked as a Principal Investigator at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal from 2004 to 2024 and is currently active at Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM). He was offered a professorship at Lisbon Medical Schools of Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 2004.

The research of his laboratory aims at understanding the mechanisms regulating inflammation and immunity and how these can be targeted therapeutically to overcome the pathologic outcome of major immune mediated inflammatory diseases.

They have, for example, identified carbon monoxide (CO) as a cytoprotective and immunoregulatory gasotransmitter, found that CO is protective against a broad range of immune mediated inflammatory conditions, and discovered that CO prevents the deleterious effects exerted by labile heme and driving the pathogenesis of severe malaria. They have described cell autonomous transcriptional stress-responses as essential to support the survival of an infected host irrespectively of its pathogen load, providing a mechanistic basis for the establishment of disease tolerance to malaria and sepsis. Later they uncovered a metabolic response that controls malaria virulence & transmission, an inter-organ response that controls life-threatening malaria anemia, and found that regulation of iron metabolism by ferritin heavy chain influences T regulatory cell lineage stability under homeostatic and pathological conditions.

You can check a more detailed biography of the speaker at his Orcid page here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9314-4833.