Head of Clinical Hematology Service
Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Portugal
Catarina Geraldes, MD, PhD, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra.
Catarina Geraldes is a Graduated Hematologist at the Hematology Department of the University Hospital Center of Coimbra.
She is responsible for the Hematopoietic Transplant Unit since 2012.
Assistant Professor of Hematology at the University of Coimbra since 2003.
She developed her Doctoral Thesis in the field of multiple myeloma (epigenetics, apoptosis, prognostic factors, drug resistance mechanisms and new therapeutic approaches).
Director of Hematology Department since September 2021.
Principal Investigator in several international multicenter clinical trials of promising new drugs for multiple myeloma patients.
Member of the Board of the Portuguese Multiple Myeloma Group since 2017.
Member of advisory boards in the fields of multiple myeloma, CAR-T cell therapies and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Author and co-author of papers published in Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia, Haematologica, New England Journal of Medicine, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Transfusion, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Pharmacoecomonics, Frontiers in Oncology, Leukemia Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Science Advances, Acta Hematologica, Acta Médica Portuguesa, among others.