Medicine • Biotechnology
About Sílvia
Sílvia Curado, Ph.D. is Faculty and Research Director at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. She carried out her Ph.D. thesis in Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Developmental Biology, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, following her MSc. in Cell Biology at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal, in collaboration with the Hammersmith Hospital in London, United Kingdom.
During her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) she worked on regenerative medicine, focusing on heart and liver regeneration using zebrafish as a genetic model system. Silvia then joined the NYU School of Medicine as Faculty to co-direct a Research Center on Nanomedicine. She is currently directing a Multidisciplinary Research Program at the NYU School of Medicine focused on Obesity and related pathologies, bringing together basic science, clinical research, population health, and data science.
She is the author of the book Engenharia Genética – O Futuro Já Começou [Genetic Engineering – The Future Has Already Begun], published in 2017. She is also President of PAPS (Portuguese American Postgraduate Society), a non-profit organization whose mission is to support the Portuguese graduate community in North America.