Pedro Reis Pereira

It's me, Pedro
Pedro Reis Pereira
Nephrologist
Centro Hospitalar Universitário
de Santo António, Porto
Invited Assistant Professor
& Researcher, ICBAS / UMIB
University of Porto
Orcid ID:
0000-0001-5411-1820
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Pedro Reis Pereira
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I am a nephrologist at the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António in Porto and an Invited Assistant Professor and researcher in the Nephrology, Dialysis & Transplantation group at UMIB / ICBAS, University of Porto.

My work sits between the clinic and the lab. I study how the kidney works and how it is injured, and I try to catch those changes in urine and blood before they show up as lost function — using metabolomics, proteomics, and, increasingly, machine learning to make sense of the data. I am also interested in ageing, and in testing new approaches to slow, halt, or reverse it in the human body.

Most of my published work is on obesity- and metabolism-related kidney disease and on kidney transplantation and living donation. I am now extending it toward molecular markers of kidney ageing and computational tools that predict how individual kidneys change over time.

I trained in medicine and completed a PhD in Medical Sciences at ICBAS, University of Porto, and I teach physiology and nephrology in the Integrated Master in Medicine there.

I am always glad to hear from people working on kidney biomarkers, ageing, or computational methods in clinical data.

Publications and associated resources

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Peer-reviewed research

Pereira PR, Braga PC, Pereira J, Pereira SS, Nora M, Guimarães M, Rodrigues A, Monteiro MP.
Proteinuria remission profiles in obesity-related kidney disease after bariatric surgery.
American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology (2026).
doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00496.2025

Pereira PR, Carrageta DF, Guerra-Carvalho B, Braga PC, Pereira J, Pereira SS, Nora M, Guimarães M, Rodrigues A, Monteiro MP.
Untargeted urinary proteomics uncovers nephroprotective and systemic adaptations after obesity surgery-induced weight loss.
Journal of Proteome Research (2025).
doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00500

Pereira PR, Almeida M, Braga P, Pereira J, Pereira S, Nora M, Guimarães M, Malheiro J, Martins LS, Monteiro MP, Rodrigues A.
Obesity-related kidney disease in bariatric surgery candidates.
Obesity Surgery (2025).
doi:10.1007/s11695-024-07602-w

Almeida M, Pereira PR, Silvano J, Ribeiro C, Pedroso S, Tafulo S, Martins LS, Silva Ramos M, Malheiro J.
Longitudinal trajectories of estimated glomerular filtration rate in a European population of living kidney donors.
Transplant International (2024).
doi:10.3389/ti.2024.13356

Pereira PR, Pereira J, Braga PC, Pereira SS, Nora M, Guimarães M, Monteiro MP, Rodrigues A.
Renal dysfunction phenotypes in patients undergoing obesity surgery.
Biomolecules (2023).
doi:10.3390/biom13050790

Almeida M, Pereira PR, Ramos M, Carneiro D, Mandaleno M, Silva F, Pedroso S, França M, Martins LS, Malheiro J.
CT volumetry performs better than nuclear renography in predicting estimated renal function one year after living donation.
International Urology and Nephrology (2023).
doi:10.1007/s11255-022-03441-9

Pereira PR, Carrageta DF, Oliveira PF, Rodrigues A, Alves MG, Monteiro MP.
Metabolomics as a tool for the early diagnosis and prognosis of diabetic kidney disease.
Medicinal Research Reviews (2022).
doi:10.1002/med.21883

Veríssimo R, Almeida M, Oliveira JP, Pereira PR, Ribeiro BO, Pedroso S, Malheiro J, Tafulo S, Martins LS, Dias L.
Why donors do not donate: a living donation program experience.
Transplantation Proceedings (2022).
doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2022.02.066

Pereira PR, Guimarães M, Morais T, Pereira SS, Nora M, Monteiro MP.
Diabetic and elder patients experience superior cardiovascular benefits after gastric bypass induced weight loss.
Frontiers in Endocrinology (2018).
doi:10.3389/fendo.2018.00718

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