Corino Andrade
Mário Corino da Costa Andrade was a leading twentieth century Portuguese neurologist and researcher who first described the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy syndrome that later came to be associated with his name.
Corino was a founder of the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, a major bioscience research institute located in Porto.
A staunch opponent of the Salazar regime, Andrade was imprisoned by the Portuguese Secret Police for belonging to a political group critical of the government.
He spent a great deal of time collaborating with scientists abroad and had a profound effect on the structure and organization of the current healthcare system in northern Portugal.
