Speakers

Cíntia Águas Pereira, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Lisbon 

Cíntia Águas is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (FMUL), where she teaches medical ethics, bioethics, research integrity, and institutional governance. She is the Technical and Scientific Coordinator of the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre Ethics Committee and Coordinates the Unit for Ethics and Integrity in Research of FMUL’s Environmental Health Institute. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law and a PhD in Bioethics with a dissertation on the ethical use of biological samples and personal data for biomedical research. She is Vice-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Portuguese Red Cross School of Health – Lisbon and a member of other ethics committees in healthcare and research. She is a member of the Deontology Board of the Portuguese Order of Biologists and of the Ethics Committee for Research of the Portuguese Order of Physicians. As Executive Secretary to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences from 2006 to 2024, she monitored, for nearly two decades, the ethical discussion of legislative processes related to new technologies in the life sciences, including the responsible use of sensitive personal data in research.  

Standing areas of interest and research: Bioethics, from principles to practice; Health Ethics and Medical humanities; Biobanks; Ethics and Human Rights; Palliative Care; Scientific Integrity; Ethics and the Environment.