Luis Meirinhos-Soares, MSc INFARMED - Medicines Agency Portugal

Luis Meirinhos-Soares has been Director of the Biology and Microbiology at INFARMED, the Portuguese Medicines Agency, since 2002. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Biochemistry and an M.Sc. in Biotechnology.

He is an appointed Expert of the European Pharmacopeia Working Groups (Microbiology, Blood Products, Biotechnology), has been a Member of the Portuguese Pharmacopoeia Commission, Auditor of the Mutual Joint Audit Scheme of the European OMCL Network in the fields of Microbiology, Biotechnology, and of the WHO Prequalification Program (since 2012). Luis is co-author of ten scientific papers in peer-reviewed publications in the fields of Microbiology and Biotechnology. He was Invited Lecturer at the M.Sc. Quality Control (Univ. Porto), and at the B.Sc. in Biochemical Engineering (Univ. Lisbon).