Sílvia Socorro is Full Professor of Biomedicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Development of the University of Beira Interior (UBI). Silvia Socorro has a PhD in
Biological Sciences (2001) and obtained the Habilitation degree in Biomedicine in 2013. She has taught several curricular units of B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. programmes, namely, the Ph.D. programme in Biomedicine, being responsible for the Scientific Writing modules. Research interests cover the action of sex steroid hormones, endocrine disruptors, and other metabolic regulators in the control of cell survival, energy metabolism, and calcium homeostasis in male reproduction and prostate cancer. She is a member of the Editorial Board of
international indexed journals and a member of national and international scientific organizations, namely, the ASPIC (Portuguese Association for Cancer Research) and the EACR (European Association for Cancer Research).
