ISSN: 2155-6148
José M. Castro-Lopes
Department of Experimental Biology Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
José M. Castro-Lopes, MD, PhD, is full professor and chair of Histology and Embryology and of Pain Medicine, and head of the Department of Experimental Biology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), where he is also director of the Post-Graduate Course on Pain Medicine. He received his MD and PhD from the FMUP and worked at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, the School of Pharmacy in London and the Unit 161 of the INSERM in Paris.
Dr. Jose M. Castro - Lopes is interesed in neurobiology of pain, in particular the changes induced in the Central Nervous System by chronic pain, and he has published many articles and some books, book chapters and review articles.