Doctor Patricia Monteiro is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, ICVS/School of Medicine, University of Minho. She holds a BSc/MSc degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a PhD degree in Neuroscience.

Dr. Monteiro did her Ph.D. training with Professor Guoping Feng at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA), where she focused on understanding brain circuitry mechanisms underlying autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) and her postdoctoral training with Professor Nuno Sousa at Minho University. She published a study showing reversal of autistic-like behaviors in adult mice by restoring the Shank3 gene and collaborated in a study showing that particular human mutations in the SHANK3 gene can lead to distinct neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Monteiro has received numerous awards namely an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship and the prestigious Branco Weiss fellowship attributed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).

 

 

 

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http://www.icvs.uminho.pt/research-scientists/neurosciences/people/patriciamonteiro