Dora Pinho

Dora Pinho got her Biochemistry degree in 1995, pursued her doctoral training in Bioinorganic Chemistry and obtained her PhD in Chemistry in 2002. In 2003, she became a postdoctoral researcher on the interaction between cardiovascular and pain control systems, at the Institute of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine – University of Porto, under the supervision of António Albino-Teixeira. Since 2007, DP has been actively engaged in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, with responsibility for several lectures, practices and tutorials in the Integrated Master Degree in Medicine, the Master Degree in Neurobiology, and Doctoral Programmes in Neurosciences and in Pharmacology & Toxicology, at the University of Porto. She has supervised 1 PhD and 5 MSc dissertations. DP also participated in various examining committees and review panels, integrated the research team of several competitively funded R&D projects, some of them as coordinator. DP’s current research interests include pathophysiology and pharmacological targets on cardiovascular disease and chronic pain and her latest research project focuses on the role of neuroinflammation and redox imbalance in the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain, with special focus on the therapeutic potential of specialized proresolving mediators and NADPH oxidase inhibitors. Other areas of interest include renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, oxidative stress, in vivo pharmacology, animal models of cardiometabolic diseases and chronic pain, behavioral evaluation of pain responses in rodents, animal welfare and laboratory animal sciences, experimental design and statistical analysis of biomedical experiments.