Tiago Torres is Professor of Dermatology at the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, University of Porto. He received his medical degree from the Faculdade de Medicina, University of Porto, completed a residency program in Dermatology and Venereology at Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP) and finished his PhD thesis in 2014 studying the role of psoriasis- associated systemic inflammation in atherosclerosis.
Currently, he is the Head of the Immunodermatology Unit (psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and auto-immune diseases) and Clinical Trials Unit of the Department of Dermatology of CHUP. Through the years has been principal investigator for several psoriasis and atopic dermatitis clinical trials.
Tiago Torres has been involved in the development of national guidelines for the treatment of psoriasis, has received the “Juvenal Esteves” Prize from the Portuguese Society of Dermatology and Venerology with research projects in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2018, as well as two grants for atopic dermatitis projects in 2018. Serves as Associate Editor of Acta Médica Portuguesa, Journal of the Portuguese Society of Dermatology and Venerology and Drugs in Context and belongs to the editorial board of Drugs and the Foundation René Touraine’s Book “Therapeutics In Dermatology”.
Currently, Tiago Torres is the President of the Portuguese Group of Psoriasis and an International Psoriasis Council member. Tiago Torres has published many articles on psoriasis and atopic dermatitis and has been the editor of the Portuguese book “Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis”. His main research topics in dermatology are immunodermatology, immunology and immunopharmacology of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.