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Alexandra Gouveia
Associate Researcher
Alexandra Gouveia is an invited adjunt professor of Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto. She received her degree in Biochemistry in 1997 and her PhD in 2003 in Biomedical Sciences from Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar-University of Porto. Her research interests center on obesity, more specifically on the peripheral role of melanocortins on cell fat physiology.