Organizing Committee Member
Len Amaral
Professor Emeritus
Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Portugal
Biography
He has excelled in the development of drugs that promote killing of intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by non-killing human macrophages; Innovated new methods for evaluation of efflux pumps of multi-drug resistant bacteria infections and multi-drug resistant cancers; Researched about drugs with activity against mdr bacteria and mdr cancers.Collaborates with 29 scientists from Europe, India, China, Japan, USA, South Africa and Argentina. He also received the Medal Of Merit from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa on 8 November 2018 for work that resulted in reducing the frequency of MDR Mtb infections of the Greater Lisbon area from 28% of all clinical isolates in 1999 to 4%. in 2008.
Research Area
Pediatric Infectious diseases and Neonatal disorders