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Portugal's League against Cancer awards Doctor Sobrinho Simoes

Xinhua, April 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

Portugal's League against Cancer awarded doctor and researcher Sobrinho Simoes on Monday for his battle in fighting cancer.

The President of Portugal's League against Cancer, Vitor Veloso, announced the decision to award Simoes during a commemorative ceremony to celebrate 75 years anniversary since the Portuguese League against Cancer was founded, according to local media.

Simoes completed his doctorate in pathology in 1979 at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University, north Portugal. He did a post-doctorate in Oslo, capital of Norway, at the Norse HydroZs Institute for Cancer Research and gained international recognition in the field of thyroid pathology.

When Simoes returned to Portugal in 1980, he became associate lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of Porto University before becoming full professor, and created the IPATIMUP (Institute for Pathology and Molecular Immunology of Porto University) in 1989.

Among other roles, Simoes is joint professor of pathology and celular biology at the Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia since 1990 and an expert of Molecular Pathology on the American Board of Pathology since August 2001.

He has authored and co-authored hundreds of articles and is a member of the European Society of Pathology, organizing the first intercontinental Pathology congresses with the Latin-American Society of Pathology (2000 and 2004).

The event on Monday was attended by Simoes, Minister of Health Adalberto Campos Fernandes and President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

Rebelo de Sousa also announced he would distinguish the Portuguese League against Cancer with the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique, pointing out that the public interest of the institution had been recognized back in 1966 and 2006. Endit