António J. Figueira (born 1997) is a MSc researcher at Protein Misfolding and Amyloids in Biomedicine group, affiliated to BioISI Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University (FC-ULisboa). In 2018 he graduated as a BSc in Biochemistry (score 17/20) and then in 2021 as a MSc in Medical Biochemistry (score 19/20), both at FC-ULisboa. For his top grades, António has received several academic merit awards. As an undergraduate during two academic semesters, he participated in research on metabolomic profiling of yeasts using Mass Spectrometry. During 2019, he started his MSc research project on "Mechanisms and regulation of amyloid formation in Alzheimer's Disease" at the Protein Misfolding and Amyloids in Biomedicine laboratory at ULisboa under the supervision of Professor Cláudio M. Gomes. He investigated the effect of the S100B chaperone on the aggregation of amyloid-b in the presence of zinc, combining structural biochemistry, chemical kinetics and biophysical approaches, that contributed to a peer reviewed publication (Cristóvão et al 2020 ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2020). His MSc thesis, discussed in January 2021 was graded 20/20). Has participated in the 2021 Ulm Amyloid meeting and presented a poster in the Ciências Research Day 2020. Currently he seeks to pursue PhD research to investigate chaperone activities of brain S100 proteins combining molecular, biophysical and cellular approaches.