Professor Sérgio Castedo, MD, PhD, is a medical geneticist with a career spanning more than three decades, dedicated to medical genetics, genetic diagnosis and the study of hereditary cancer.
He graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto in 1981 and completed his PhD in Medicine, specialising in Genetics, at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 1988. He is a certified specialist in Medical Genetics by the Portuguese Medical Association.
In his clinical practice, he has been working as a geneticist at Procriar since the clinic’s foundation in 2019. In parallel, he has been a researcher at IPATIMUP since 1991 and a member of the National Council for Medically Assisted Reproduction since 2007, where he currently serves as Vice-President. He has coordinated the Genetic Diagnostic Unit at IPATIMUP since 2016 and has been responsible for the Familial Cancer Clinic at the Champalimaud Foundation since 2013.
Previously, he was Head of the Oncogenetics Clinic at São João Hospital between 2006 and 2024 and Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto between 1994 and 2023. He also served as Clinical and Technical Director of GDPN – Medical Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis, in private practice.
Between 1998 and 2004, he was responsible for the genetic counselling clinic at IPO-Porto. He also served as President of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics in 2002 and was Head of the Genetics Department at IPO-Porto between 1989 and 2001.
Among other academic activities, he taught on the Master’s programmes in Applied Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and was responsible for the Prenatal Diagnosis Unit of the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of Groningen.
Throughout his career, Professor Sérgio Castedo has maintained a continuous commitment to research, clinical practice and the development of medical genetics in Portugal.
I have been at Procriar since its very beginning. Throughout my medical career, working closely with gynaecologists and obstetricians, I have always regarded prenatal diagnosis and medical genetics as fundamental fields for improving families’ lives by expanding diagnostic and preventive possibilities. Genetics truly has a transformative impact.
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