Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Carlos André Vitorino Rodrigues
Citation names
- Rodrigues, Carlos A.V.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2710-577F-E43E
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9645-1591
Websites
- http://scerg.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cavrodrigues.html (Professional)
- http://scerg.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/biomatdeviceslab2.html (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Technologies Involving the Manipulation of Cells, Tissues, Organs or the Whole Organism
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
- Agrarian Sciences - Agrarian and Food Biotechnology - Agricultural Biotechnology and Food Biotechnology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2011/10/01 - 2016/10/31
Concluded
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Engenharia Bioquímica e Biotecnologia (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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2007/09 - 2011/09/21
Concluded
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Bioengenharia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Design and Operation of Bioreactor Systems for the Expansion and Controlled Differentiation of Stem Cells" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Pass with merit |
2007/09 - 2008/03
Concluded
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Programa MIT-Portugal (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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18 |
2002/01/09 - 2007
Concluded
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Engenharia Biológica (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Novel Strategies for Gene Manipulation in Mammalian Cells" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2016/11/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal | ||
2011/10/01 - 2016/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2022/03/22 - Current | Co-Founder and Executive Director | CellAgri Portugal - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento da Agricultura Celular, Portugal |
CellAgri Portugal - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento da Agricultura Celular, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/12/01 - 2026/11/30 | FEASTS - Fostering European cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solutions
101136749
Other
Horizon 2020, Belgium
European Union, Belgium |
Ongoing
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2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 | CLEANFISH - New strategies for sustainable production of cell-based fish
2022.07677.PTDC
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2020/09/01 - 2025/08/31 | AMELIE - Anchored Muscle cELls for IncontinencE
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Horizon 2020
Ongoing
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2024/03/01 - 2025/02/28 | Europe Food Biofutures
RCS820199966
Responsible for the project at IST-ID
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EIT Food iVZW
Ongoing
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2022/02/22 - 2024/12/31 | ANIMATE - Analyzing NeuroIMmune dysregulation in Alzheimer´s disease toward a Therapy with miRNA-loaded Exosomes
PTDC/MED-NEU/2382/2021
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/02/01 - 2024/07/31 | DENDRICARE - Next generation of antibiofilm agents: Multivalent dendrimers with antimicrobial and biofilm disruption activity
2022.03627.PTDC
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2021/02/01 - 2024/01/31 | SMART - New technologies for Stem cell Manufacturing bioprocess monitoring and ARTificial intelligence-based modeling
PTDC/EQU-EQU/3853/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/12/01 - 2023/11/30 | Algae2Fish
Algae2Fish
Researcher
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Good Food Institute
Ongoing
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2022/11/01 - 2023/11/01 | VitaminSea - Enhancing Cost-Effective and Efficient Nutrient Delivery in Fish Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Medium via Functional
Bioactive Microcarriers
22-CM-PT-DG-1-317
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Good Food Institute
Ongoing
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2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 | CARDIOWHEEL - Upscaling the Production of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes using Vertical-Wheel Bioreactors
PTDC/EQU-EQU/29653/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 | NEURON- Electrically conductive platforms for neural stem cell culture and differentiation
PTDC/CTM-CTM/30237/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/10/01 - 2021/01/07 | MINI-HEARTS - Organoid Engineering for Production of 3D Cardiovascular Microtissues from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
for Cardiotoxicity Assays
PTDC/EMD-TLM/29728/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2018/06/01 - 2021/01/07 | CEREBEX - generation of gene-edited cerebellar organoids for ataxia research
PTDC/BTM-SAL/29598/2017
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2016/07/01 - 2021/01/01 | PRECISE - Accelerating progress toward the new era of precision medicine
SAICTPAC/0021/2015
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2016/06/01 - 2017/11/30 | Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of hiPSC Cardiac Differentiation Cultured as 3D Aggregates or as a 2D monolayer
iBB/2016/07
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências
Concluded
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2012/01 - 2014/12 | StemPure - Bioprocess for Production and Purification of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Neural Cells for Regenerative
Medicine Applications
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/01 - 2012/12 | Integrated Process for the Expansion and Neural Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Stirred Suspension Bioreactors
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/01 - 2012/12 | Exploring human embryonic stem cell fate using 3-D cellular microarrays
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/03/01 - 2024/02/29 | DENTALBIOMATRIX - Matriz extracelular descelularizada como componente fundamental no fabrico de scaffolds hierárquicos e biomiméticos
para regeneração de tecidos periodontais funcionais
PTDC/BTM-MAT/3538/2020
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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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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Intellectual property
Patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/02/23 | What is Cultivated Meat and how it can help to create a more sustainable planet | Food4Sustainability Academy - 1st Webinar cycle 2023: Sustainable Proteins
Food4Sustainability Colab (Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2024/02/01 - Current | Analysis of transcriptomic data from stem cell
differentiation in bioreactors using Machine Learning
Supervisor of Afonso Nuno Ribeiro da Silva Mangas Reis
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Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2024/02/01 - Current | New strategies for biosurfactant bioprocess monitoring and control using machine learning
Supervisor of Carolina Alexandra Jorge Vares
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Biotecnologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2023/02/01 - 2033/11/14 | Machine Learning analysis of transcriptomic data from stem cell differentiation in bioreactors
Supervisor of Inês Sofia Martins Pereira Soares
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Engenharia Biológica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2022/04/05 - 2027/04/05 | An Integrated Process for the Production of Extracellular Vesicles from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Stirred-Tank
Bioreactors
Supervisor of William Lewis Sullivan Coutinho de Oliveira e Sousa Salvador
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Bioengenharia (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2021/09/01 - 2022/07/01 | Analysis of transcriptomic data from stem cell differentiation in bioreactors, using Machine Learning
Supervisor of Sofia de Pinto e Lobo da Silva Agostinho
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Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2021/03/01 - 2021/12/09 | PBS Vertical-Wheel Bioreactors: A study of hidrodynamics and aeration using OpenFOAM
Supervisor of Pedro Miguel Gonçalves da Silva Neto
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Engenharia Química (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2021/02/01 - 2021/10/01 | Towards cost-efficient culture of human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Vertical-Wheel bioreactors
Supervisor of William Lewis Sullivan Coutinho de Oliveira e Sousa Salvador
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Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2021/02/01 - 2021/10/01 | Cardiac differentiation of human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Vertical-Wheel bioreactors
Supervisor of Inês Alexandra Brites Ribeiro
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Engenharia Biológica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2017/02/07 - 2021/06/30 | Engineering Characterisation of Bioreactors for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion and Differentiation
Supervisor of Diogo Espírito Santo Nogueira
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Bioengenharia (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2019/02/18 - 2020/12/04 | Electrospinning of polymeric and composite materials for Tissue Engineering applications
Co-supervisor of Giulia Filippone
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Materials Engineering (Master)
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
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2018/02/01 - 2018/12/20 | Towards 3D in vitro models of Osteoarthritis
Co-supervisor of Silvia Gonella
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Biomedical Engineering (Master)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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2017/09/01 - 2018/07/31 | Assessing conjugated electrically conductive polymer PEDOT: PSS for the manufacture of substrates for neural stem cells culturing
Co-supervisor of Laura Sordini
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Biomedical Engineering (Master)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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2017/05/01 - 2017/11/17 | Strategies for Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Supervisor of Ana Filipa Potes Semião
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Engenharia Biológica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2016/07/01 - 2017/11/03 | Scalable expansion and harvesting of hiPSCs using dissolvable microcarriers
Supervisor of André Lopes Rodrigues
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Biotecnologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2016/07/01 - 2017/11/02 | Cardiomyocyte Differentiation of hiPSCs in 2D and 3D culture systems: A Comparative Study and Transcriptomic Analysis
Supervisor of João Pedro Brinquete Cotovio
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Biotecnologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2015/02/01 - 2015/12/07 | Bio-functionalization of microcarriers for human neural stem cell expansion
Supervisor of Cheila Patrícia de Oliveira Madaleno
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Engenharia Biomédica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2012/07/01 - 2013/07/30 | Expansion of human Neural Stem Cells in microcarrier-based spinner flask culture systems
Co-supervisor of Maria João Carvalho Sebastião
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Biotecnologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/01/01 - 2023/09/08 | 1st CellAgri Portugal International Conference (2023/09/07 - 2023/09/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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CellAgri Portugal - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento da Agricultura Celular, Portugal |
2019/10/29 - 2019/10/29 | 1st iBB Workshop - "Fostering Collaborative Research"; Location: IST Congress Center, Lisboa, Portugal (2019/10/29 - 2019/10/29)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal |
2013/04/28 - 2013/05/04 | 1st International Advanced Course on Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing, organized by Professor Joaquim Cabral (Instituto
Superior Técnico), Professor Christopher Hewitt (Loughborough University) and Professor Todd McDevitt (Georgia Tech), Tavira,
Portugal, April 28 to May 4, 2013.
(2013/04/28 - 2013/05/04)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal |
2011/06/30 - 2011/06/30 | E3 Forum: Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Grand Auditorium FCT-UNL, Almada, Portugal, June 2011 (2011/06/30 - 2011/06/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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2009/04/28 - 2009/04/30 | 4th International Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapy (SPCE-TC), IST, Lisboa, Portugal, April
2009
(2009/04/28 - 2009/04/30)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Sociedade Portuguesa de Células Estaminais e Terapia Celular, Portugal |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2022/11/30 | Engineered cardiac tissues with improved maturation for regenerative medicine
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Maria Laura Rodriguez Abi Saab (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2021/11/18 | Scalable manufacture of skeletal muscle derived cells: optimization of a microcarrier-based, xenogeneic-free culture system
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Mariana Coelho Martins (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2021/01/25 | Engineered Heart Tissues for Cardiovascular Disease Modeling
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Beatriz Assunção Gamelas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2021/01/08 | Novel electrospun scaffolds for neural stem cell differentiation under electrical stimulation
(Thesis) Arguer
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Fábio Filipe Ferreira Garrudo (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2020/05/22 | Developing cellular models for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
(Thesis) Arguer
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Marta De Jesus Ribeiro (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2019/11/14 | Improving the differentiation of hiPSC into cardiomyocytes as 3D aggregates through modulation of mechanical and chemical
factors
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Catarina Monteiro Gomes (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2019/03/21 | Design and fabrication of full-thickness vascularized human skin with 3D bioprinting technology
(Thesis) Arguer
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Tânia Daniela Calaveiras Baltazar (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2018/11/30 | Evaluation of the effect of Polyacrylamide gel matrix on ventral midbrain dopaminergic neurons (vmDAn) differentiation and
astrocyte proliferation
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Raquel Fernandes Abreu (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2018/11/06 | Definitive Endoderm Induction of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rodrigo Balsinha Pedroso (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2018/10/31 | 3D hiPSC to hepatocyte differentiation in bioreactor for Primary Hyperoxaluria type I disease model
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Mara Sofia de Almeida Domingues (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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2018/10/19 | Nanofiber based systems for neural stem cell support
(Thesis) Arguer
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Miriam Calado Amores de Sousa (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2017/11/23 | Integrated expansion and cardiac differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells in 2D and 3D conditions
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Mariana Martins Barardo dos Santos Pina (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2016/11/23 | Expansion of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells on Dissolvable Microcarriers Under Dynamic Culture Conditions
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Sara Filipa Violante Vieira (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2016/11/11 | Bio-engineering of neuromesodermal progenitors
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Jorge Miguel Faustino Martins (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2015/11/16 | Role of a bile acid in improving survival and function of neural stem cells (Main examiner)
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rita Abrunhosa Soares (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2014/11/26 | Scalable Expansion of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSC) under Xeno-free Conditions
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Cláudia de Sousa Medeiros Cordeiro (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2013/12/10 | Culture Platform for Induction of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Cortical Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells under
Chemically Defined Conditions
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Diana Catarina Santos (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2020/09/01 - 2021/02/28 | Biomaterials Technology (TB5179577) | Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2020/03/01 - 2020/07/31 | Cell and Tissue Engineering (ECTec264) | Engenharia Biológica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2019/09/01 - 2020/02/29 | Biomaterials Technology (TB5179577) | Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2019/09/01 - 2020/02/29 | Cell and Tissue Engineering (ECTec25179577) | Engenharia Biológica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2018/02/01 - 2018/07/31 | Cell and Tissue Engineering (ECTec26) | Engenharia Biológica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2014/01/01 - 2017/12/31 | Stem Cell Engineering Module in the PhD Program: Bioengineering – Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine | Bioengenharia (Doutoramento) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2016/09/01 - 2017/01/31 | Cell and Tissue Engineering (ECTec25179) | Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2016/02/01 - 2016/07/31 | Stem Cell Bioengineering (BCE51113) | Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2016/02/01 - 2016/07/31 | Cell and Tissue Engineering (ECTec851113) | Engenharia Biológica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2015/02/01 - 2015/07/31 | Stem Cell Bioengineering (BCE511) | Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
2015/02/01 - 2015/07/31 | Cell and Tissue Engineering (ECTec8511) | Engenharia Biológica (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2022/07/01 - Current | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology |
Distinctions
Award
2007 | Best Students UTL
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Other distinction
2010 | Participation in the globally recognised forum for the exchange of knowledge between Nobel Laureates and young researchers, the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates (2010), June 27-July 2nd, Lindau, Germany |