Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Carla Marina Pereira Gomes
Citation names
- Gomes, Carla P.
- Gomes CP
- Carla P. Gomes
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 011E-8ABB-F006
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1483-4079
Email addresses
- carlag@ipatimup.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Oncology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
- Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2011/09 - 2017/11/29
Concluded
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Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Biomédica (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Functionalized nanoparticles for targeted gene delivery to the nervous system" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
2012/05
Concluded
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Course in Laboratory Animal Science (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
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2012/02
Concluded
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Seeding of Nerve Cells - Implementation and Characterization (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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2009/09 - 2011/07
Concluded
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Mestrado em Biologia Celular e Molecular (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Impact of therapeutic gene silencing on cancer cell lines of different histological origins" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
2010/01 - 2010/07
Concluded
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English for Academic Purposes II (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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17 |
2006/09 - 2009/07
Concluded
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Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura)
Major in Minor em Biomedicina Molecular
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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17 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/02 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal | ||
2017/12 - 2018/09 | Postdoc (Research) | Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal |
2016/07 - 2017/11 | Researcher (Research) | Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal |
2012/01 - 2016/06 | Researcher (Research) | Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
Universidade do Porto, Portugal | ||
2014/01 - 2014/06 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | University of Linz - Institute of Biophysics - Atomic Force Microscopy Group, Austria |
2009/09 - 2011/07 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/12 - 2019/01 | Collaborator in the Research and Innovation Unit | Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/02/01 - Current | TRICAN - Tregs in cancer immune response
PTDC/MED-PAT/32462/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal
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FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2016/07 - 2019/11 | BaiTS - Biodegradable dendrimers for Targeted neuroprotective therapies in Stroke
PTDC/CTM-NAN/3547/2014
Other
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
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FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/06 - 2019/06 | The role of long non-coding RNAs on the molecular circuitry and metabolic adaptation of breast cancer
PTDC/BTM-TEC/28534/2017
Researcher
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
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FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2017/12 - 2018/09 | Accelerating progress toward the new era of precision medicine
SAICTPAC/0021/2015
Post-doc Fellow
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FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2016/07 - 2017/11 | The non-coding transcriptome in stemness and aging
PTDC/BIM-MED/0032/2014
Researcher
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
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FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2012/01 - 2014/12 | TARGETS – TARgeted GEne Therapy Strategies to treat nerve injury
PTDC/CTM-NAN/115124/2009
Researcher
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
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FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference paper |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2018/09/09 | Fine tuning neuronal targeting of nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery | Annual Meeting of the European Society for Biomaterials
European Society for Biomaterials (Maastricht, Netherlands)
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2017/09/27 | Smart Design of Nanoparticles to Cargo Nucleic Acids to the Nervous System | AMBA 2017: Advanced Materials for Biomedical Applications
(Ghent, Belgium)
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2017/09/04 | Finely tuned neuron-targeted nanoparticles for peripheral nerve tissue treatment | 28th European Conference on Biomaterials
European Society of Biomaterials (Athens, Greece)
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2017/06/26 | BDNF gene delivery vectorized by neuron-targeted nanoparticle is neuroprotective in peripheral nerve injury | TERMIS EU
(Davos, Switzerland)
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2015/09/10 | Targeted BDNF Gene Delivery Mediated by TMC-based Nonviral Vectors is Neuroprotective in Nerve Injury | 4th TERMIS World Congress
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (Bonston, United States)
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2015/09/02 | Tuning Transfection Efficiency by Modulating the Biodegradation Rate of Trimethyl Chitosan Nanoparticles | 27th European Conference on Biomaterials and 12th Youth Scientific Forum
European Society for Biomaterials (Kraków, Poland)
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2014/10/16 | ImageStream® and Atomic Force Microscopy as Valuable Tools for the Characterization and Design of Targeted Nanoparticles | International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging – Capturing life in a pixel
(Porto, Portugal)
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2014/10/16 | Neuronal targeting and retrograde axonal transport of TMC-based nanoparticles in primary neurons | International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging - Capturing life in a pixel
(Porto, Portugal)
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2014/10/16 | Trimethyl Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles Intracellular Trafficking and Transfection: a Bioimaging Study | International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging – Capturing life in a pixel
(Porto, Portugal)
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2014/09/03 | Targeted Gene Delivery into Peripheral Nervous System Mediated by Trimethyl Chitosan Nanoparticles | 26th European Conference on Biomaterials and 11th Youth Scientific Forum
European Society for Biomaterials (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
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2013/10/03 | Uptake and intracellular localization of TMC-based nanoparticles assessed by imaging flow cytometry | International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging – From Molecule to Man
(Porto, Portugal)
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2013/09/08 | Trimethyl chitosan as a gene carrier to the peripheral nervous system | 25th European Conference on Biomaterials and 10th Young Scientific Forum
European Society for Biomaterials (Madrid, Spain)
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2013/06/12 | Regulação da expressão de CDX2 e penetrabilidade no muco gastrointestinal usando nanopartículas de siRNA e quitosano | Semana Digestiva
(Porto, Portugal)
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2013/05/05 | Trimethyl chitosan-based nanoparticles for targeted gene delivery to the peripheral nervous system | 11th International Conference of the European Chitin Society
European Chitin Society (Porto, Portugal)
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2011/10/13 | Activity of anti-Plk-1 siRNA on cancer cell lines of different histological origin | III Congress of the Portuguese Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and IX Spanish-Portuguese Conference on Controlled Drug
Delivery
(Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2018/09 - 2019/12/06 | The origin of tumour-infiltrating regulatory T cells
Co-supervisor of João Augusto Freitas
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Mestrado em Oncologia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
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2016/09 - 2018/04 | Long non-coding RNAs as potential therapeutic targets in human breast cancer
Co-supervisor of Ana Beatriz Silva
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Biologia Molecular e Genética (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2013/09 - 2014/11/24 | Gene delivery mediated by N-Trimethyl chitosan nanoparticles - the impact of the polymer degree of acetylation on transfection
Co-supervisor of Aida Alexandra Varela Moreira
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Medicina e Oncologia Molecular (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
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Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2014 - 2015 | Weekly visits to local elementary schools during the scholar year to promote science education among young children
Other
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Porto de Crianças
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
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2011 - 2015 | Public events dedicated to bring researchers closer to the public and to showcase the diversity and impact of research on
our daily lives.
Exhibition
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European Researchers' Night
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade do Porto, Portugal |
2012 - 2012 | Annual event that aims to show the diversity of the educational programs and training offer available at the University of
Porto
Exhibition
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10ª MOSTRA DE CIÊNCIA, ENSINO E INOVAÇÃO
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2019/12 - Current | i3S Association of Post-Docs | Vice-Representative |
2019 - Current | EACR-AACR-ASPIC (European Association for Cancer Research - American Association for Cancer Research - Associação Portuguesa de Investigação em Cancro) | Association Member |
2015 - 2015 | European Society for Gene and Cell Therapy | Association Member |
2013 - 2015 | European Society for Biomaterials | Association Member |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2015/11/05 - 2015/11/06 | International Symposium in Applied Bioimaging - The pre-clinical challenge in 3D | INEB |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2019/10 - Current | Expression of a foreign antigen in a cancer cell line | Carolina Silva Moreira |
2019/01 - 2019/07 | Curricular unit of Supervised Laboratory/Clinical Practice | Ana Beatriz Sousa Pinto |
2017/01 - 2017/10 | Unravelling the role of the long non-coding RNA NORAD in breast cancer | Catarina Alves-Vale |
Distinctions
Award
2012 | PhD Schoolarship
FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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