Rui Moreira completed his Master degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon. After a postdoctoral stay in the UK, Rui started his career as an independent scientist at the University of Lisbon and was promoted to Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in 2006, becoming Head of Department in 2010-2016, and Director of the Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa) in 2010-2013.
Rui has wide research interests in the field of Medicinal and Chemical Biology, covering the development of anti-infectious agents, targeted drug delivery systems, design of enzyme inhibitors and chemical probes for activity- and photoaffinity-based protein profiling/chemoproteomics. He has published over 190 papers and supervised/co-supervised more than 40 PhD students.
Rui was co-founder of the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Portuguese Chemical Society, and served as President of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology (EFMC) in 2021-2023. He is the current EFMC Past-President.
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