Félix Carvalho, PharmD, PhD, ERT is Full Professor of Toxicology, at the Department of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Porto (FFUP), and researcher of the Research Unit on Applied Molecular Biosciences (UCIBIO) at REQUIMTE, Portugal. He is presently President of the Scientific Council of FFUP, Past-President of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology, President of EUROTOX, and Vice-Director of UCIBIO.
Félix Carvalho is also European Expert of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and Member of the Committee for Evaluation of Medicines at the National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, I.P. (INFARMED), and participates in the editorial board of several scientific journals. His main area of research is Toxicology, with a special interest in the evaluation of mechanisms of toxicity of xenobiotics (e.g. pharmaceutical drugs, drugs of abuse, pesticides and toxins). During the past 30 years, Félix Carvalho published over 450 scientific articles / book chapters and is co-editor of two Books, in the area of Toxicology.