General Structure

The Centre of Pulmonology (CP) was approved in 1978 by the former National Institute of Scientific Research (INIC), and since then has been coordinated by:

. António José Robalo Cordeiro (1978-1996)

. Luís Cardoso de Oliveira (1996-2006)

. Carlos Robalo Cordeiro, since 2006.

It is the Unit 123 of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) and is made up of an Administrative Board, that includes 5 PhD Professors:

Manuel Fontes Baganha (Professor of Pulmonology), Santos Rosa (Professor of Immunology), António Segorbe Luís (Professor of Clinical Immunology), Carlos Robalo Cordeiro (Professor of Pulmonology),  Lina Carvalho (Professor of Pathology),

and an External Advisory Board, with 4 PhD Professors:

António Rendas (Medical Sciences School, New University of Lisbon), António Coutinho (Gulbenkian Institute of  Science, Associate Laboratory, Oeiras), Om Sharma (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Ulrich Costabel (Ruhrlandklinik, Essen).

As to the previous update, the Centre includes 21 PhDs, 36 non PhDs researchers (4 masters, 5 PhDs students and 2 master’s students) and 6 collaborators (technical and administrative staff).

In the last triennium (2003/2006) there were 14 ongoing projects and participation in 4 European network studies.

 The CP was submitted to external evaluations organized by the FCT with international panels, and classified as Excellent and as Very Good.