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Miguel Viveiros is Full Professor of Biomedical Sciences – Medical Microbiology, and Vice-Director of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT) at NOVA University Lisbon (UNL). He holds a PhD in Biology (Microbial Genetics) (2001) from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and completed his Habilitation (Agregação) in Biomedical Sciences (Microbiology) (2012) at IHMT/UNL.
He is dedicated to the study and development of new diagnostic tools and alternative therapies for the treatment of drug-resistant infectious diseases, such as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and staphylococcal infections. He is a specialist in laboratory diagnosis and in the characterization of resistance determinants using phenotypic and genotypic assays, and he applies advanced technical approaches such as whole-genome sequencing, nanotechnology, and real-time phenotypic testing. Many of his studies have demonstrated the public-health implications of antimicrobial multidrug resistance and have contributed to improving first- and second-line anti-TB treatments currently recommended.
He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in national and international journals, as well as books and book chapters in mycobacteriology, bacteriology, antibiotic resistance, microbial genetics, molecular epidemiology, and immunology.
Since 2020, he has been Scientific Coordinator of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Research Centre “Global Health and Tropical Medicine” (UID/04413/2020). He is a founding member and treasurer, and currently a management committee member, of the ESCMID Study Group for Mycobacterial Infections (ESGMYC). He is Director-General and Scientific Coordinator of “Ciência LP – International Centre for Advanced Training in Fundamental Sciences for Scientists from Portuguese-Speaking Countries” (UNESCO Category 2 Centre) and Vice-President of the Portuguese Society for Microbiology. He served as Vice-Chair (2017) and Chair (2019) of the Gordon Research Conference on Multi-Drug Efflux Systems (2017–2019). He is a panel member for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and an expert evaluator for the South Africa–UK MRC, Wellcome Trust Awards, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Belgium, the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Haut Conseil de l’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (HCERES), and the Spanish National Agency for Scientific Evaluation (ANEP).
