Pedro Miguel Mendes Rodrigues (601F-3832-C556)

Curriculum Vitae

Pedro Miguel Mendes Rodrigues

Over the course of my 14-year scientific career as an immunologist, my research has been devoted to studying the development of the thymus, which plays a key role in the generation of functional self-tolerant T cells. My journey began in 2012 as a master student in the research group led by Dr. Nuno Alves (IBMC, Porto), supported by a research fellowship (FCT: BI-PTDC/SAU-IMU/110116/2009). In 2013, I was awarded a Ph.D. scholarship through a competitive call from FCT (FCT-SFRH/BD/86605/2012). My Ph.D. thesis focused on uncovering new molecular mechanisms underlying the function of the thymus in both steady and regenerative conditions. After completing my Ph.D. in 2018, I was invited to continue my career as a post-doctoral researcher at i3S (Porto). In 2020, I secured a 6-year contract for an independent research position in a competitive national call from FCT (CEECIND/00267/2018). Since then, I have been implementing my independent research lines that are centred on Thymic Epithelial Cells (TEC) development and their role in T cell selection, with the goal of establishing my research group. My studies have provided major advances in the field of TEC biology, T cell development, and immune tolerance, resulting in 13 articles published in prominent journals in the field of immunology (Autophagy, Blood, Journal of Immunology, European Journal of Immunology, and Trends in Immunology). More recently, I secured a 6-year contract for a position as assistant researcher (CEECINSTLA/00017/2022). Apart from my scientific productivity, I have secured two research grant as Principal Investigator (FCT) and another as co-principal investigator (FCT). Over the last few years, I have mentored and trained 1 post-doctoral researcher, 1 Ph.D. student, 3 M.Sc. students and 3 B.Sc. students. Lastly, I have been presenting my work at international and national meetings and have received solicitations to act as a reviewer for several research journals.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Pedro Miguel Mendes Rodrigues
Date of birth: 1988/06/29
Gender: Male

Citation names

Rodrigues, Pedro M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 601F-3832-C556
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3256-5060
Scopus Author Id: 55107531400

Email addresses

pedro.mendes@ibmc.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135, Paranhos, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013 - 2018 Concluded	Biomedical Sciencies (Doutoramento) Major in Immunology Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "How to keep the thymus in shape: new molecular insights on thymic epitelial cell homeostasis and function" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved
2010 - 2012 Concluded	Biochemistry (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "Dissecting the Thymic Microenvironment: The Impact of Defective T-Cell Development in the Maintenance of the Cortical Thymic Epithelium" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2012 Concluded	Course in Laboratory Animal Science, FELASA Cat. B (accredited by DGAV) (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
2006 - 2010 Concluded	Biochemistry (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis e Doença de Crohn: Detecção e Indução da expressão de receptores membranares em macrófagos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/12 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

2020/07 - 2024/11	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2018/04/01 - 2020/06/30	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017 - 2018	PhD student supported with a ERC fellowship (ERC starting grant - Ref: 637843)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

2013/03/01 - 2017/03/01	PhD student supported with a FCT scholarship (FCT-SFRH/BD/86605/2012)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018/04/01 - 2020/04/01	Molecular control of self-renewal and lineage specification in thymic epithelial cell progenitors in vivo Starting Grant (637843) Post-doc Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal	European Research Council Concluded
2017/03/01 - 2018/03/31	Molecular control of self-renewal and lineage specification in thymic epithelial cell progenitors in vivo Starting Grant (637843) PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal	European Research Council Concluded
2012 - 2013	Unveiling the thymic interleukin 7 niche in vivo - A framework to study the cellular and molecular control of a master regulator of T lymphopoiesis PTDC/SAU-IMU/110116/2009 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2025/02/01 - 2026/07/31	Exploring the role of KLF15 in the establishment of functionally diverse thymic epithelial cell microenvironments and its impact on T cell-mediated immunity 2023.13623.PEX 10.54499/2023.13623.PEX Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/03/01 - 2025/12/31	Molecular Control of Foxn1 Expression in Thymic Epithelial Cells: Advances in Thymus Regenerative Therapies. PTDC/MED-IMU/0888/2021 10.54499/PTDC/MED-IMU/0888/2021 Principal investigator Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021 - 2024	Molecular principles underlying T cell development and tolerance induction in the thymus: Defining the role of RNA binding proteins in thymic epithelial cell lineage specification and function in vivo PTDC/MED-IMU/1416/2020 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Matsumoto, Minoru (co-first author); Rodrigues, Pedro M. (co-first author); Sousa, Laura; Tsuneyama, Koichi; Matsumoto, Mitsuru; Alves, Nuno L.. "The Ins and Outs of Thymic Epithelial Cell Differentiation and Function". In Thymus Transcriptome and Cell Biology, 35-65. Springer International Publishing, 2019. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-12040-5_3
Conference poster	Sousa, Laura; Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Ribeiro, Ana Rita; Landry, Jonathan J. M.; Alves, Nuno L.. "The molecular program that drives Foxn1 expression is temporally regulated during thymic epithelial cell specification". Paper presented in ThymE 24: T cell and Thymus Biology., 2024. Sousa, Laura; Ferreirinha, Pedro; Ribeiro, Ana Rita; Araújo, Leonor; Perrod, Chiara; Landry, Jonathan J. M.; Alves, Nuno L.; Rodrigues, Pedro M.. Corresponding author: Alves, Nuno L.. "Exploring the role of KLF15 in the establishment of the thymic epithelium and its role in T cell education". Paper presented in ThymE 24: T cell and Thymus Biology., 2024. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Chiara Perrod; Jonathan Landry; Leonor Araújo; Isabel Pereira-Castro; Vladimir Benes; et al. "Thymic epithelial cells require p53 to support their long-term function in thymopoiesis in mice". Paper presented in The Annual Meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID 2017), 2017. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Chiara Perrod; Catarina Meireles; Leonor Araújo; Jonathan Landry; Isabel Pereira-Castro; et al. "Thymic epithelial cells selectively require p53 to support their role in T-cell development and tolerance induction". Paper presented in XLII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology, 2016. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Catarina Meireles; Helena Xavier-Ferreira; Nuno L. Alves. "A cell-autonomous role for p53 in regulating the maintenance of medullary thymic epithelial cell compartment and the long-lasting adult thymic function". Paper presented in Thymus@Lisbon, 2015. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Catarina Meireles; Helena Xavier-Ferreira; Nuno L. Alves. "A cell-autonomous role for p53 in regulating the maintenance of medullary thymic epithelial cell compartment and the long-lasting adult thymic function". Paper presented in Venice Thymus Meeting, 2015. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Helena Xavier-Ferreira; Catarina Meireles; Nuno L. Alves. "Sex steroid ablation stimulates thymic rebound through an Interleukin-7-independent pathway". Paper presented in Hematopoiesis: From Bench to Bedside, 2014. Pedro M. Rodrigues; Ana R. Ribeiro; Helena Xavier-Ferreira; Catarina Meireles; Nuno L. Alves. "Sex steroid ablation stimulates thymic rebound through an Interleukin-7-independent pathway". Paper presented in Thymus@PortoII, 2013. Ana R. Ribeiro; Pedro M. Rodrigues (Presenting author); Catarina Meireles; James P. Di Santo; Nuno L. Alves. "Thymocyte selection regulates the homeostasis of IL7-expressing thymic cortical epithelial cells in vivo". Paper presented in 15th International Congress of Immunology (ICI), 2013. Ana R. Ribeiro; Pedro M. Rodrigues (Presenting author); Catarina Meireles; James P. Di Santo; Nuno L. Alves. "Thymocyte selection regulates the homeostasis of IL7-expressing thymic cortical epithelial cells in vivo". Paper presented in XXXVIII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology, 2012.
Journal article	Alves, Inês; Santos-Pereira, Beatriz; de la Cruz, Noelia; Campar, Ana; Pinto, Vanda; Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Araújo, Marco; et al. "Host-derived mannose glycans trigger a pathogenic ¿d T cell/IL-17a axis in autoimmunity". Science Translational Medicine 15 687 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abo1930. 10.1126/scitranslmed.abo1930 Sousa, Laura G.; Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Alves, Nuno L.. "T-cell selection in the thymus: New routes toward the identification of the self-peptide ligandome presented by thymic epithelial cells". European Journal of Immunology 53 3 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1002/eji.202250202. 10.1002/eji.202250202 Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Sousa, Laura G.; Perrod, Chiara; Maceiras, Ana R.; Ferreirinha, Pedro; Pombinho, Rita; Romera-Cárdenas, Gema; et al. "LAMP2 regulates autophagy in the thymic epithelium and thymic stroma-dependent CD4 T cell development". Autophagy 19 2 (2022): 426-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2022.2074105. Open access • 10.1080/15548627.2022.2074105 Ghezzo, Marinella N.; Fernandes, Mónica T; Pacheco-Leyva, Ivette; Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Machado, Rui S.; Araújo, Marta A S; Kalathur, Ravi K.; et al. "FoxN1-dependent thymic epithelial cells promote T-cell leukemia development". Carcinogenesis 39 12 (2018): 1463-1476. Published • 10.1093/carcin/bgy127 Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Ribeiro, Ana R.; Serafini, Nicolas; Meireles, Catarina; Di Santo, James P.; Alves, Nuno L.. "Intrathymic Deletion of IL-7 Reveals a Contribution of the Bone Marrow to Thymic Rebound Induced by Androgen Blockade". The Journal of Immunology 200 4 (2018): 1389-1398. Published • 10.4049/jimmunol.1701112 Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Peterson, Pärt; Alves, Nuno L.. "Setting Up the Perimeter of Tolerance: Insights into mTEC Physiology". Trends in Immunology 39 1 (2018): 2-5. Published • 10.1016/j.it.2017.11.001 Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Ribeiro, Ana R.; Perrod, Chiara; Landry, Jonathan J. M.; Araújo, Leonor; Pereira-Castro, Isabel; Benes, Vladimir; et al. "Thymic epithelial cells require p53 to support their long-term function in thymopoiesis in mice". Blood 130 4 (2017): 478-488. Published • 10.1182/blood-2016-12-758961 Meireles, Catarina; Ribeiro, Ana R.; Pinto, Rute D.; Leitão, Catarina; Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Alves, Nuno L.. "Thymic crosstalk restrains the pool of cortical thymic epithelial cells with progenitor properties". European Journal of Immunology 47 6 (2017): 958-969. Published • 10.1002/eji.201746922 Nazareth, Nair; Magro, Fernando; Machado, Elisabete; Ribeiro, Teresa Gonçalves; Martinho, António; Rodrigues, Pedro; Alves, Rita; et al. "Prevalence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and Escherichia coli in blood samples from patients with inflammatory bowel disease". Medical Microbiology and Immunology 204 6 (2015): 681-692. Published • 10.1007/s00430-015-0420-3 Ribeiro, Ana R.; Meireles, Catarina; Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Alves, Nuno L.. "Intermediate expression of CCRL1 reveals novel subpopulations of medullary thymic epithelial cells that emerge in the postnatal thymus". European Journal of Immunology 44 10 (2014): 2918-2924. Published • 10.1002/eji.201444585 Ribeiro, A.R.; Meireles, C.; Rodrigues, P.M.; Alves, N.L.. "Corrections to Intermediate expression of CCRL1 reveals novel subpopulations ofmedullary thymic epithelial cells that emerge in the postnatal thymus [Eur. J. Immunol., 44, 10 (2014)] DOI: 10.1002/eji.201444585". European Journal of Immunology 44 12 (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924301485&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1002/eji.201470117 Ribeiro, Ana R.; Rodrigues, Pedro M.; Meireles, Catarina; Di Santo, James P.; Alves, Nuno L.. "Thymocyte Selection Regulates the Homeostasis of IL-7-Expressing Thymic Cortical Epithelial Cells In Vivo". The Journal of Immunology 191 3 (2013): 1200-1209. Published • 10.4049/jimmunol.1203042 Campos, Nair; Magro, Fernando; Castro, Ana Rita; Cabral, Joana; Rodrigues, Pedro; Silva, Ricardo; Appelberg, Rui; et al. "Macrophages from IBD patients exhibit defective tumour necrosis factor-a secretion but otherwise normal or augmented pro-inflammatory responses to infection". Immunobiology 216 8 (2011): 961-970. Published • 10.1016/j.imbio.2011.01.002
Thesis / Dissertation	Rodrigues, Pedro M.. "How to Keep the Thymus in Shape: New Molecular Insights on Thymic Epitelial Cell Homeostasis and Function". PhD, Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, 2018. Rodrigues, Pedro M.. "Dissecting the Thymic Microenvironment: The Impact of Defective T-Cell Development in the Maintenance of the Cortical Thymic Epithelium". Master, Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, 2012.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/11	Unveiling the molecular blueprint behind FOXN1 induction in thymic epithelial cells	11th i3S Annual Meeting i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal)
2024/06	The molecular principles underlying T cell selection in the thymus and their implications for protective immune responses	AIRR Community Meeting VII – Learnings and Perspectives The Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Community of The Antibody Society (Porto, Portugal)
2019/05/20	Lamp-2 expression in cortical thymic epithelial cells fine-tunes CD4/CD8 T cell specification during positive selection	Embo Workshop - "ThymE: T cell and Thymus Biology" Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel)
2018/11/29	Lamp-2 expression in cortical thymic epithelial cells fine-tunes CD4/CD8 T cell specification during positive selection	7th i3S Annual Meeting Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal)
2017/06/22	Thymic epithelial cells require p53 to support their long-term function in thymopoiesis in mice	Molecular Aspects of Hematological Disorders The European Hematology Association (Madrid, Spain)
2015/10/28	Sex steroid ablation improves T-cell generation and thymic epithelial microenvironments in Interleukin-7- deficient mice	XLI Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology The Portuguese Society of Immunology (Braga, Portugal)
2015/07/02	p53 status dictates the homeostasis of medullary thymic epithelial cells and the long-lasting function of the thymus	First Symposium on Immunomodulation in Cancer and Regeneration Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica (Porto, Portugal)
2014/10/13	Conditional deficiency discloses a TEC-autonomous requisite of p53 for adult thymic function	XL Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology The Portuguese Society of Immunology (Lisboa, Portugal)
2013/11/13	Sex steroid ablation stimulates thymic rebound through an Interleukin-7-independent pathway	XXXIX Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology The Portuguese Society of Immunology (Coimbra, Portugal)
2013/02/13	Thymocyte selection regulates the homeostasis of IL7-expressing thymic cortical epithelial cells in vivo	6o Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025 - Current	The Molecular Regulation of Thymic Epithelial Cell Function in T Cell Development and Its Impact on Immune Responses Co-supervisor of João Luís Pestana de Freitas de Sousa Cardoso	Biologia Molecular e Celular (PhD) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023 - 2025/02	Junior Researcher: FCT project (PTDC/MED-IMU/0888/2021) Supervisor of Ana Rita Ribeiro	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/10	Unveil the role of LAMP2 in T cell development in the thymus Supervisor of Ana Carolina Brito de Farias Hage Alves	Molecular and Cellular Biology (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2019 - 2024	Identification of the genetic program underlying the control of Foxn1 expression during thymic epithelial cell lineage specification in vivo Co-supervisor of Laura Isabel Guedes de Sousa	Biologia Molecular e Celular (PhD) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2023/02/13 - 2023/06/09	Deciphering Foxn1 inductive program during thymic epithelial cell lineage specification Co-supervisor of Milena Vandermeulen	Biomedical laboratory Technology - Majoring in Pharmaceutical and Biological Laboratory Technology (Degree) Hogeschool Gent, Belgium
2022 - 2023	Enhancing the Differentiation of Thymic Epithelial Cells in vitro Supervisor	Biochemistry (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Unveiling the role of LAMP-2 in dendritic cells MHC-II antigen presentation Supervisor	Biochemistry (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/12	Deciphering the role of Krüppel-Like Factor 15 in Thymic Epithelial Cell Development and Homeostasis Supervisor of Marcelo Gomes Afonso	Biologia Celular e Molecular (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Unravelling the Functional Consequences of TEC-specific Deletion of p53 in T Cell Homeostasis Co-supervisor of Laura Isabel Guedes de Sousa	Biochemistry (Master) Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal
2015 - 2016	The Impact of CD8+ T cell Selection in Medullary Thymic Epithelial Microenvironment Co-supervisor of Laura Isabel Guedes de Sousa	Biochemistry (Degree) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2013 - 2014	The Impact of CD8 T-Cell Selection in the Establishment of Thymic Epithelial Cell Microenvironments Co-supervisor of Helena da Costa e Cunha Xavier Ferreira	Biochemistry (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023 - 2024	International Meeting \| ThymE 24: T cell & thymus biology (2024/05/27 - 2024/05/31) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	Aging Cell
2024 - Current	Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
2023 - Current	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
2023 - Current	Immunological Research
2022 - Current	Nature Aging
2021 - Current	BMC Molecular and Cell Biology
2021 - Current	Histochemistry and Cell Biology
2021 - Current	Pediatric Reports

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023 - Current	The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
2019 - Current	The European Hematology Association (EHA)
2012 - Current	The Portuguese Society of Immunology (SPI)

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2015/02/27 - 2018/03/15	As a member of the monitoring committee of the PhD program in Biomedical Sciences, I was involved in the evaluation process of the doctoral program by A3ES (Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education). Member	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/12 - 2024/12	"A journey through the THYMUS and its implications for the immune system"	Molecular Immunology (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2022	This article covers our discoveries on the role of LAMP2 in controlling CD4 T-cell development in the thymus	Diário de Notícias
2018/01/15	This article covers our discoveries on the potential usage of androgen blockade as a readily therapeutic approach to boost thymic function in male pediatric patients with congenital immunodeficiencies, not only after but also before hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT).	Lusa - Agência de Notícias de Portugal
2018	This article covers our discoveries on the potential usage of androgen blockade as a readily therapeutic approach to boost thymic function in male pediatric patients with congenital immunodeficiencies, not only after but also before hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT).	Notícias Universidade do Porto

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2018/03/31 - 2018/03/31	Mentes que Brilham	New therapies to improve bone marrow hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT)

Distinctions

Award

2024	Principal Investigator (Research Grant: 2023.13623.PEX) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2024	Assistant Researcher position - Institutional Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEECINSTLA/00017/2022) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2021	Principal Investigator (Research Grant: PTDC/MED-IMU/0888/2021) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2020	Co-Principal Investigator (Research Grant: PTDC/MED-IMU/1416/2020) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2019	EMBO Travel Grant Award EMBO - The European Molecular Biology Organization, Germany
2019	Junior Researcher position - Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEECIND/00267/2018) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2017	Travel Grant Award by the Portuguese Society of Immunology (SPI) Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2016	Prémio Arala Chaves for the Best Scientific Communication at the XLII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Immunology Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2015	Best Oral Presentation Award at the First Symposium on Immunomodulation in Cancer and Regeneration Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
2012	PhD Scholarship (FCT-SFRH/BD/86605/2012) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal