Published on Linkedin on November 8th, 2025 Reading Qatar’s latest precision medicine and national strategy reports as my flight approached Doha, I found myself genuinely impressed and, as a veteran of biomedical strategy, more than…
At 35, Sarah suffered a heart attack that a €30 genetic test could have prevented. Her story isn’t unusual, it’s a mirror of how health systems worldwide confuse “standard care” with equity. Sarah, a 34-year-old…
Published on Linkedin on August 3rd, 2025 While everyone chases longevity drugs, the real fountain of youth sits in your liver In the ever-expanding dialogue around longevity in a medical setting, we hear a lot…
Published on linkedin on June 17th 1. Not enough evidence! When we first embarked on developing Hepatopredict, our idea was very clear: create a biomarker-based test that could reliably inform clinical decisions about liver transplantation…
This reflection was heavily reliant on sourcing information and testing arguments with my favourite AI agent: Perplexity.AI. The ideas, interpretations, and conclusions are mine. The estimates on impact (e.g., life-years gained, cost savings) are approximations…
I gave a talk about genomics and the development of precision medicine approaches in Asma at the ASIA meeting 2018 (Associação de Serviços e Unidades de Alergologia). I discussed the challenges of establishing a genomics-based…
At the Falar Global show, discussing with Reginaldo Rodrigues de Almeida new technologies in medicine, like genomics and bioinformatics, and the future (and present) of medicine