Jorge Diogo Silva
PhD
Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António (CHUdSA)
Centro de Genética Médica Jacinto de Magalhães (CGM)
Research group
Clinical and Experimental Human Genomics
Jorge Diogo Silva MD/PhD is a researcher and resident physician in Medical Genetics at the Medical Genetics Center Jacinto de Magalhães, Porto University Hospital Center. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Minho in 2020, and completed his doctoral program in collaboration with Columbia University (New York City, USA) in 2021, under the MD/PhD program. He developed his thesis studying neurogenetics conditions such as spinal muscular atrophy and spinocerebellar ataxias. Currently, he continues actively engaged in research in different areas of Human Genetics, in the fundamental, translational and clinical perspectives. He has obtained funding from FCT (doctoral scholarship) and the National Ataxia Foundation (research grant), has supervised master students and is currently supervising a doctoral study.