Dulce Quelhas

Dulce Quelhas earned her 6 years honour degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences – Biological-Chemistry Analysis at Porto University. She completed her Genetics specialist training at Instituto de Genética Médica Jacinto de Magalhães, Porto, with special training in biochemical and molecular genetics diagnostic in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation in the Metabolic Department of University Hospital Gasthuisberg in Leuven, Belgium, with Prof. Jaak Jaeken and Prof. Gert Matthijs.
She is a Certified Clinical Laboratory Genetics (general) by the European Board of Medical Genetics.
She has extensive expertise as a clinical laboratory geneticist in the diagnosis and treatment of paediatric rare disorders metabolic diseases and as her main focus as a Researcher in the Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Unit (UMIB) at Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences – the University of Porto is Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation.

She published about 35 international peer-reviewed clinical and scientific papers and book chapters.