Leonor Cancela

Leonor Cancela is Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Algarve (UAlg), member of the Algarve Biomedical Center and founding member of the Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR).

She implemented in 1994 the BIOSKEL research laboratory that she leads since then and has coordinated over 150 undergraduate, PhDs and postdoctoral fellows, published over 200 articles in international journals, 15 book chapters, and is co-author of 7 patents and 3 registered marks.

She is the co-founder of Technozeb, a Business Unit of Technophage SA involved in the discovery of molecules with therapeutic interest using zebrafish.  She is regularly invited to give seminars and integrate academic juris and evaluation panels in national/international institutions and agencies, including chair of ERC committees. 

Research interests focus in molecular, environmental and epigenetic determinants of skeletogenesis in health and disease and the use of zebrafish as model for human pathologies with skeletal phenotypes.