Luís Miguel de Almeida Monteiro (201E-0FE4-968A)

Curriculum Vitae

Luís Miguel de Almeida Monteiro

Luís Miguel de Almeida Monteiro. Completed the Doutoramento in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine in 2023/12/11 by Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia and Mestrado in Mestrado Integrado em Bioengenharia in 2016/10 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia. Is Postdoc in Universidade de Coimbra. Published 4 articles in journals. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 3 project(s) and Research Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Medical Biotechnology with emphasis on Technologies Involving the Manipulation of Cells, Tissues, Organs or the Whole Organism. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Stem cells; Regenerative medicine; Drug screening; Cardiovascular diseases; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Luís Miguel de Almeida Monteiro

Citation names

Monteiro, Luís

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 201E-0FE4-968A

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Technologies Involving the Manipulation of Cells, Tissues, Organs or the Whole Organism

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017/10 - 2023/12/11 Concluded	Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal "Bioengineered approaches for studying and treating cardiac disease or ageing. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/10 Concluded	Mestrado Integrado em Bioengenharia (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Evaluation of the therapeutic potential of piezoelectric fibers-coated thin films for the treatment of myocardial infarction" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/12/12 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal
2016/12/01 - 2017/10	Researcher (Research)	CNC.IBILI, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/10 - 2023/12/11	PhD Student	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar, Portugal (...)
2016/02/01 - 2016/10/01	Master Student. Stem Cell Microenvironments in Regeneration/Repair Team	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/01/01 - Current	REBORN - Remodelling of the infarcted heart: piezoelectric multifuncional patch enabling the sequential release of therapeutic factors 101091852 PhD Student Fellow	Ongoing
2021/05 - 2022/11	Engineering an aged cardiac tissue from human pluripotent stem cells COVID/BD/151893/2021	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2017/10 - 2021/04	Engineering an aged cardiac tissue from human pluripotent stem cells SFRH/BD/129991/2017 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/12 - 2017/09	CARDIOSTEM- Engineered cardiac tissues and stem cell-based therapies for cardiovascular applications MITP-TB/ECE/0013/2013 Research Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021/01/01 - Current	RESEarch for healThy AGEING 952266 PhD Student Fellow	European Commission
2015/07/01 - Current	Enhancing Research in Ageing at the University of Coimbra 669088	European Commission

Outputs

Publications

Journal article

Pitrez, Patricia R.; Monteiro, Luís; Borgogno, Oliver; Xavier, Nissan; Mertens, Jerome; Ferreira, Lino. Corresponding author: Ferreira, Lino. "Cellular reprogramming as a tool to model human aging in a dish". Nature Communications (2024):
Accepted
Pitrez, Patricia R.; Estronca, Luís; Monteiro, Luís Miguel; Colell, Guillem; Vazão, Helena; Santinha, Deolinda; Harhouri, Karim; et al. "Vulnerability of progeroid smooth muscle cells to biomechanical forces is mediated by MMP13". Nature Communications 11 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17901-2.
Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41467-020-17901-2
Gouveia, P. José; Rosa, S.; Ricotti, L.; Abecasis, B.; Almeida, H.V.; Monteiro, L.; Nunes, J.; et al. "Flexible nanofilms coated with aligned piezoelectric microfibers preserve the contractility of cardiomyocytes". Biomaterials 139 (2017): 213-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.05.048.
Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.05.048
Monteiro, Luís Miguel; Vasques-Nóvoa, Francisco; Ferreira, Lino; Pinto-do-Ó, Perpétua; Nascimento, Diana Santos. "Restoring heart function and electrical integrity: closing the circuit". npj Regenerative Medicine 2 1 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41536-017-0015-2.
Open access • Published • 10.1038/s41536-017-0015-2

Thesis / Dissertation

"Bioengineered approaches for studying and treating cardiac disease or aging". PhD, Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, 2023.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/09/05	Piezoelectric patches preserve electrical integrity of cardiac tissue.	33rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials. European Society of Biomaterials (ESB) (Davos, Switzerland)
2022/12	A model of aged human cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.	International Meeting Ageing With]Out[Borders 2022 Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Ther- apies (SPCE-TC) (Faro, Portugal)
2022/03	Disease modeling and drug screening on cardiomyocytes derived from Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome induced pluripotent stem cells.	12th International Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (SPCE-TC) Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (SPCE-TC) (Braga, Portugal)
2021/11	Flexible piezoelectric patches for improvement of heart tissue activity.	6th World Congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) issue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) (Maastricht, Netherlands)
2021/09	Piezoelectric patches improve cardiac electrical proficiency after myocardial ischemic injury.	31st Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) European Society of Biomaterials (ESB) (Porto, Portugal)
2019/10	GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CARDIOMYOCYTES DERIVED FROM A HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL MODEL OF HUTCHINSON-GILFORD PROGERIA SYNDROME	Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/05/21	Piezoelectric patches improve cardiac electrical integrity on a mouse model of myocardial infarction.	6th China- Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine (CESB) (Porto, Portugal)