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Vera Marisa Costa (VMC) is a Researcher at the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Porto (FFUP), integrated at the excellence center UCIBIO\REQUIMTE. VMC is a Pharmacist with a PhD on Toxicology attributed in 2009 by the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Porto, being the thesis in the field of cardiotoxicity of catecholamines. At present, she holds 100+ international papers in peer-reviewed international journals (Scopus h-index of 34), 2 articles in national journals, and 4 book chapters. Her works impacts in Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Toxicology, mainly focusing on Onco-Cardiology, Chemobrain and Toxin Toxicity. She was the Principal Investigator on two FCT-funded projects (‘Why is mitoxantrone a poison to the heart? Focus on mitochondria, cytoskeleton, and metabolic bioactivation mechanisms’ and ‘Poisoning the heart with anticancer drugs: is metabolic bioactivation or aging promotion the link to the cardiotoxicity of anticancer drugs?’), being participant in 5 funded national projects and one EU-funded pedagogic project. She is (co)supervisor of 5 PhD students, being co-supervisor of 3 finalized PhD. She has (co)supervised 12 MSc dissertation(s) (plus 4 are ongoing). VMC has pedagogic experience in the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine in the University of Porto, CESPU and University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro in the fields of Toxicology, Occupational Medicine and Pharmacology. She is Associated Editor in three international peer-reviewed scientific journals on Pharmaceutical Sciences and Toxicology. In recent years, she has been a Scientific Evaluator of research projects applied for funding on Italy, Poland, Romania and Serbia Scientific Programs and member of several COST actions, with focus on cardiac health.

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Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Deputy Head of the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Team Leader and Principal Investigator of CardioTox In Vivo research laboratory at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové. Associate Editor of ESC Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Toxicology. Research focus: cardiovascular toxicity of anticancer drugs (particularly anthracycline cardiotoxicity), pharmacological cardioprotection and heart failure research. Education: MSc. in Pharmacy/PharmD. (2002/2007) – Pharmaceutical Faculty in Hradec Králové, Charles University and PhD. in Medical Pharmacology (2007) – Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University.

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Paulo J. Oliveira is currently Principal Investigator with “Agregação” (Habilitation) at the CNC – Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is the current leader of the “Mitochondria, Metabolism and Disease” group and of the MitoXT: Mitochondrial Toxicology and Experimental Therapeutics laboratory. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University de Coimbra in 1999. In 2003, he completed his PhD in Cellular Biology from the same University. After completing his doctorate, Paulo Oliveira spent more than three years working at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, USA, where he collaborated with several researchers and contributed to the publication of several peer-reviewed manuscripts. Paulo Oliveira's current research focuses on mitochondrial biology, investigating the alteration of cardiac mitochondrial function by physical activity and diet, cardiac mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death caused by anti-neoplastic agents, mitochondrial alterations during cancer stem cell differentiation and carcinogenesis or rational designing and validation of mitochondria-directed antioxidants. Paulo has over 280 peer-reviewed publications and many collaborations in Europe, Africa, and the USA. He has also received several prizes from the Portuguese Cardiology Society for his work on cardiac mitochondrial research. Besides research, Paulo Oliveira is often involved in teaching at the Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, as well as in other Universities in Portugal and elsewhere, besides in numerous science communication activities. Paulo Oliveira has also been a reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals and over 10 different funding agencies, including the European Commission (Research Executive Agency) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. His research group is supported by competitive national and international funding agencies, including the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the European Commission, and private foundations.