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MCP was born in January 1954. In 1976, she obtained a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the School of Veterinary Medicine of the Technical University of Lisbon, now Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMV), University of Lisbon. In 1981, she obtained a degree of Master of Science and, in 1987, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, both in the University of Stirling, United Kingdom. From 1976 until her retirement, she was a professor at FMV in the discipline of Pathological Anatomy, having retired as a Full Professor, a category she reached in 1996. She was Vice-Rector of the Technical University of Lisbon between 1996 and 1999, with Prof. Simões Lopes as Rector, and in 2011, with Prof. Ramôa Ribeiro as Rector, who died in office that same year. She has been a diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Pathology since 1996. In 2003 and 2004, he was Vice President of the Foundation for Science and Technology.
Throughout her career she received several awards, of which she highlights: “Pfizer Award 1980”, together with R. Perestrelo Vieira and Carlos V. Martins for the work “Contribution to the Study of Atrophic Rhinitis in Portugal”; “Sanitas Prize 1984” in collaboration with R. Perestrelo Vieira, awarded to the work “Congenital myoclonus in piglets”; “Pfizer Prize 1984” for the work “Swine Rotavirose in Portugal”, together with R. Perestrelo Vieira and José Vigário and “Pfizer Prize 1992” with the work “Mammary tumors of the bitch and the cat”.
Her research was developed in the area of veterinary oncology, in particular bladder neoplasms, for which she became co-author of the Histogical Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System of Domestic Animals, published in 2004 by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, American Registry of Pathology, World Health Organization, Washington D.C, the other authors having been D.J. Meuten, J Everitt, W Inskeep, R.M. Jacobs, and K.G. Thomson.
She has supervised and co-supervised numerous master’s theses and nine doctoral theses.