Fernanda Borges
Group Leader
fborges@fc.up.pt
ORCID
0000-0003-1050-2402
Scopus Author ID
7005767887
ResearcherID
A-5200-2014
Fernanda Borges is Associate Professor with habilittion of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto and the Coordinator of the Medicinal Chemistry Group in Chemistry Research Centre of the University of Porto (CIQUP).
She received her MSc and PhD (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal. Her current research is focused on the design and development of new chemical entities to be used in the prevention/therapy of neurodegenerative, liver or infectious diseases.
The application of nanotechnology for therapy and diagnostics is up-to-date a complementary research. She authored more than 300 publications in peer review journals (Scopus h-index: 47), 10 international book chapters, and 3 patents. She is founder of MitoTAG spin-off.