MD/PhD. Neuroscientist and Neuroradiologist. On a journey to apply cell biology to new ways of imaging the brain. President of @SPNeurociencias
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Joined July 2018
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Check our latest publication! We show that #Lewy body co-pathology is frequent in #Alzheimer disease with important clinical implications.
Work led by Francisco Almeida @neurothought
Collaboration between
@icvs_uminho
@IcahnMountSinai
@NACCData
doi.org/10.1002/alz.14191
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Really proud of Tatiana Morais with whom I've been working in the past few years on #Alzheimer's mechanisms for being award the 2026 Maria de Sousa Award. Congrats also to all other awardees
This is only possible with @bialfoundation support at various research levels in 🇵🇹
🎉 Congratulations to the five young Portuguese researchers in #healthsciences awarded with the #MariadeSousaAward 6th edition – 2026!
👩🔬 Luísa Fialho, i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, @UPorto, Porto
👩🔬 Sara Isabel Fernandes, VIB - Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Belgium
👩🔬 Tatiana Morais, ICVS – Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Universidade do Minho, Braga
👨🔬 Simão Teixeira, @INL, Domingues Research Group, Braga
👩🔬 Ana Verónica Domingues, ICVS – Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Universidade do Minho, Braga
👀Stay tuned, from 3.30 pm we will be at #OrdemdosMédicos sharing the best moments of this year's Award Ceremony.
#OrdemdosMédicos #BialFoundation #MariadeSousa
No Dia Mundial da doença de #Alzheimer foi publicado um artigo que escrevi com @neur0ghost / Miguel Pereira para o jornal @Publico sobre a importância da #ciência para estudar mecanismos e causas da doença, e disparidades no acesso às novas terapias em 🇵🇹
publico.pt/2026/09/21/cienci…
Excited for the next few days at #AAIC26 @alzassociation in London 🇬🇧
I’m presenting today our poster on imaging correlates of #Alzheimer and #Lewy body pathology - poster #1202 - stop by or let me know if you want to connect and meet at the conference.
aaic.alz.org
Happy to share our recent work by @TorcatoMeira: "Differential atrophy along the longitudinal axis of the hippocampus in #Alzheimer’s disease and suspected non-Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology (SNAP)" in #Neuroradiology - @ESNRad official journal
link.springer.com/article/10…
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We applied an algorithm to segment the hippocampus along its longitudinal axis and studied how anterior-posterior subregional hippocampal volumes differed in #Alzheimer, #SNAP and biomarker-negative participants, defined by CSF fluid biomarkers.
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We found that #Alzheimer pathology contributed to greater relative posterior hippocampal atrophy & that anterior-posterior relative atrophy differentiated Alzheimer & SNAP
Also thanks Rafaela Ribeiro, Tiago Jesus, Marcelo Dias & Ana Coelho
@icvs_uminho
@Med_UMinho
ULSBraga
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Great opportunity for a PhD fellowships under the @ArqusAlliance that @UMinho_Oficial is part of.
For eligibility & info:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/4…
Deadline is soon!
29 Jun 2026 - 17:00
DM if you're interested.
More info on Arqus:
arqus-alliance.eu/
Proud to see the PhD work of Francisco Almeida @neurothought awarded the Nuno Grande Scholarship for the development of methods to identify sub-types of #Alzheimer
Congrats to the other awardees & @bialfoundation for investing in physician-scientists
@icvs_uminho
@Med_UMinho
👏 Congratulations to the winners of the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships 2025: Daniela Oliveira, @FMUPorto, @i3S_UPorto and ULS Entre Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira, Francisco Almeida, @Med_UMinho, @ICBAS_UPorto and ULS Santo António, Porto, Francisco Vasques-Nóvoa, @FMUPorto and ULS São João, Porto.
⏰ Today, from 3:00 pm, follow the highlights of the Doctoral Scholarship Award Ceremony here on the page.
🤝 A partnership between the family of Professor Nuno Grande, #BialFoundation and #ICBAS.
#BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch #Rheumatology #Spondyloarthritis #IBD #AlzheimerDisease #Neurology # #Cardiology #HeartDiseases
40ª Reunião Anual do Grupo de Estudos de Envelhecimento Cerebral e Demência (GEECD) 🧠🇵🇹
15-16 de maio em Tomar
Submissão de resumos até 15 de abril!
Participem!
Para mais informações --> eventos.norahsevents.pt/gera…
From the many groundbreaking advances at #ADPD2026 I highlight the following presentation tackling the relevance of #copathology in #Alzheimer:
→Using #gantenerumab trial data the @Roche team did a retrospective analysis of CSF samples assessing α-synuclein co-pathology
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Overall, by studying α-synuclein copathology in PART we were able to “capture” its cognitive toxic effect independently of amyloid pathology, & we had already predicted at the time that this would be a key factor for clinical trial design.
More at: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.w…
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Tiago Gil Oliveira retweeted
The next SPN Seminar, organized by the Junior Committee of the SPN, will take place on April 13th, 2026, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, with a fantastic line-up of speakers:
1. Miranda Mele, CNC-UC, CIBB, Coimbra
2. João Paulo Cunha, INESC TEC, Porto
Registration: forms.gle/29dxAsWpMUmsA9BJ7
Tiago Gil Oliveira retweeted
Our paper on The Lipid Interactome is now published, and the database is open:
lnkd.in/g-swyT2a
Why you should care:
Lipid–protein interactome studies are exploding, but the data is scattered across papers, inconsistent formats, and silos making it hard to compare/reuse.
Partilho a minha entrevista para o "HealthNews" onde falo sobre o Prémio Bial em Medicina Clínica, o futuro da investigação em doenças neurodegenerativas e a importância de se investir nas carreiras dos médicos-investigadores.
healthnews.pt/2026/02/10/tia…
It was an honor to receive the BIAL Award for Clinical Medicine last year and it’s incredibly gratifying to see part of my scientific journey devoted to understanding brain🧠 regional susceptibility to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer summarized in this book
Apply for next edition!
📚 The winning work of the #PrémioBialdeMedicinaClínica 2024 has been published!
🏆 Tiago Gil Oliveira (@TGO_lab), Associate Professor at the @Med_UMinho, researcher and team coordinator at @icvs_uminho, neuroradiologist at Hospital de Braga and President of @SPNeurociencias, was the winner of the latest edition of the Award, which included a prize of €100,000 and the publication of the first edition of the winning work. Read the book here👉 dub.sh/PBMC-2024
Applications for the 2026 edition of this Award are open until August 31. Learn more at🌐 dub.sh/BF-PBMC
#BialFoundation #ClinicalResearch
