Professor Schmitt is a Professor of Pathology at the University of Porto, senior researcher at IPATIMUP and Director of the Department of Medicine and Pathology at Laboratoire National de Santé in Luxembourg. Professor Schmitt has authored more than 410 papers in peer-review journal and 23 book chapters; he is widely considered a world-leading expert in cytopathology and breast cancer. Fernando was a fellow at the Karolinska Medical Hospital, Stockholm, and was Professor of Pathology at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil and University of Toronto, Canada. His main research work is on breast cancer, with emphasis on molecular markers, cell adhesion and invasion, as well as on therapeutic targets and mechanisms of resistance. Fernando serves as Associate Editor of six major scientific journals and sits on the editorial board of many others. He has also been chairman, president or scientific director of several major European, Portuguese and Brazilian scientific societies. Currently he is the Secretary-General of the International Academy of Cytology (IAC). Fernando received the prize of Educator of the Year 2011 by the Papanicoloau Society of Cytology (USA), also received the prize GOLDBLATT AWARD 2013 da International Academy of Cytology.