Lídia Fonseca

Technology and Business Manager · University of Porto · company speakers →

Lídia Fonseca is a Technology and Business Manager at the Technology Transfer office of the University of Porto (U.Porto Inovação) since 2018. Lídia manages a portfolio of technologies in the areas of Health, Life Sciences and Biotechnology, focusing on defining a strategy for protecting the intellectual property of the university’s most promising inventions and establishing partnerships with industry for their commercial valorisation (licensing-out or assignment agreements). She has also been managing funded projects related to knowledge transfer and the BIP PROOF program, which provides financial support for proof-of-concept projects in the University of Porto’s research ecosystem. Lídia worked for several years in academic research in the fields of Virology and Gene Therapy, both in Portugal (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and Instituto de Medicina Molecular) and in the USA (University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute). She has also wor

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BioFIT

10 December 2026 Marseille, France

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