Fatima Cardoso#
| Membership Number: | 7351 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | PORTUGAL |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.abcglobalalliance.org/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6692-2249 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatima-cardoso-73825836/ |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present President, Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) Global Alliance, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2010 - Jan 2025: Director Breast Unit, Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2011-2012 SDA Bocconi - Program for Oncology Leaders in Europe (POLE), SDA Bocconi School of Management, University of Milan, Italy
- 2003 - 2010 Assistant Professor (senior staff member), Medical Oncology Clinic - Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium
- 2002 - 2004 Masters in Oncology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
- 2002 - 2003 Basic Research Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA
- 2000 - 2002 Clinical and Translational Research Fellow, Medical Oncology Department & Translational Research Unit, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium
- 2000 - 2000 Medical Oncologist at Clínica Oncológica IV, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal
- 1995 - 2000 Residency in Medical Oncology at Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Portugal
- 1984 - 1994 Degree in Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal / University of Porto, Portugal
Fields of Scholarship
- Breast cancer
- Prognostic and predictive markers
- Accessibility and inequalities
- New anticancer agents
- Biology of breast cancer
- Clinical trials
- Global cancer policy
Honours and Awards
- September 2011 Flims Alumni Club (FAC) Lifetime Achievement Award
- June 10th, 2015 Order of Santiago da Espada for Scientific Merit, from the President of Portugal, Lamego, Portugal
- November 2015 Award Femina, for exceptional Portuguese women, for scientific merit, Lisbon, Portugal
- January 2017 Prix Nice - St Paul 2017, for the work developed for Advanced Breast Cancer Patients, Nice, France
- June 2019 Reach to Recovery International Health Professional Award 2019, for exceptional contributions by a health professional in the field of breast cancer support, Prague, Czech Republic
- Nov 2019 ABC Award 2019, in recognition of her foresight in understanding the importance of advanced breast cancer and for launching a Global Alliance against it, Lisbon, Portugal
- August 2020 Jin Xian-zhai Special Achievement Award, for outstanding contributions to prevention and treatment of human cancer, especially breast cancer, Tianjin, China
- October 2020 European Breast Cancer Science Award - Emmanuel van der Schueren Lecture, at the European Breast Cancer Conference 12, Barcelona, Spain
- March 2021, Umberto Veronesi Memorial Award, at the 17th St Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference 2021, virtual.
- “Personalidade do Ano” – Prémio Saúde Sustentável – 10ª Edição (Personality of the Year -Sustainable Health Award), October 2021, Lisbon, Portugal
- September 2022 ESMO 2022 Women For Oncology Award, Paris, France
- January 2023 “Distinção de Mérito Profissional e título de Profissional do Ano Rotário 2022-2023” (Professional of the Year by the Lisbon Rotary Club), Lisbon, Portugal
- 2025 Yvonne Award recipient for Lifetime Achievement in Oncology, honored for a distinguished career that has profoundly shaped the field of oncology, Chicago




