António Coutinho

General Council

António Coutinho studied at the Karolisnka Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, where he obtained a PhD in Medical Microbiology. In his professional duties he is involved in work at the university and in research activities in Sweden, Switzerland and France. He organised and led the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he was also in charge of the Immunology Department. António Coutinho also created the Gulbenkian Doctorate Programme in Biomedicine, of which he is now head. In addition to this, he is currently Head of the Gulbenkian Institute for Science, where since 1998, he has developed a new model to make it the first European associated laboratory of the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (France). He is professor at the Pasteur Institute and at the Faculty of Medicine in Lisbon, and he is, without doubt, one of the most renowned immunologists in the world. He has published hundreds of scientific articles and he has been a guest speaker and guest Professor in Europe, United States, Japan and Latin America.