Virologist and Virology Professor
Pedro Simas is Head Researcher at the Portuguese Molecular Medicine Institute (Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes), a biomedical research institute. He is also Professor of Virology at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Medicine). Holds a PhD on Virology from Cambridge University, where he initiated research in understanding basic molecular mechanisms involved in herpes virus infections associated with specific forms of cancer like lymphomas.