Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Claudia Istrate
Citation names
- Istrate, Claudia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6019-F7C1-681F
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4706-7598
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 934476052 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Agrarian Sciences - Veterinary Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Romanian (Mother tongue) | |||||
Hungarian (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2003/02/01 - 2007/04/24
Concluded
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Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
"Host and Immune Responses to Natural and Experimental Rotavirus Infection" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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aprovado por unanimidade |
1995/10/01 - 2001/06/30
Concluded
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Medicina Veterinara (Licenciatura)
Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca, Romania
"Study of parasitic infections and diseases in captive primate species" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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9.50 (nine 50%) out of 10 |
1995/06/30 - 1998/06/30
Concluded
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Teaching Degree (Outros)
Major in Biology and Chemistry
Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/07/15 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal | ||
2019/06/01 - 2019/07/04 | Researcher (Research) | Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Portugal |
2018/04/01 - 2018/06/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Linköpings Universitet Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Sweden |
Linköpings Universitet Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Sweden | ||
2008/06/01 - 2015/09/30 | Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal | ||
2007/09/01 - 2008/05/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Linköpings Universitet Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Sweden |
Linköpings Universitet Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Sweden |
Projects
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 | Laboratório Associado para Ciência Animal e Veterinária
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centro de Ciência Animal e Veterinária, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos de Ciencia Animal, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023/03 - 2025/03/11 | Characterization of a novel African swine fever virus (ASFV) modulator of cytokine responses
2022.04769.PTDC
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/01/01 - 2024/12/31 | Targeting TLR2 for improved veterinary vaccines
PTDC/CVT-CVT/4599/2021
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2019/01/01 - 2024/12/31 | Global Health and Tropical Medicine
UID/Multi/04413/2019
UIDB/04413/2020
154718UID
UIDP/04413/2020
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022 - 2023 | Low-cost arboviral genomic arboviral surveillance and education initiatives in São Tomé and Piauí
Researcher
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Concluded
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2022 - 2023 | Identification of the biological interacting partners of DP146L protein of African Swine Fever Virus
UIDB/00276/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2021 - 2022 | Detection and characterization of rotavirus group A strains circulating in the Lisbon Zoologic Garden animals
UIDB/00276/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2018 - 2020 | Yellow fever vaccine coverage and arbovirus seroprevalence cluster survey in Samba (Luanda) and Porto Amboim municipalities
ID: 14-2018 CE Angola
Researcher
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Department of Population Health
Cancelled
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2017 - 2017 | Enteric zoonoses of viral and parasitic origin in children and young animals in the view of "One Health, One Medicine"
Researcher
Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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EXECUTIVE AGENCY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION FUNDING
Concluded
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2013/06 - 2015/06 | Norovirus infection and disease in Portuguease elderly; a glimpse on epidemiology and host genetics
PTDC/DTP-EPI/1222/2012
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ministerio da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior
Concluded
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2013 - 2015 | Network for Portuguese speaking women in tropical health
MulhereS Trop
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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The Elsevier Foundation
Concluded
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2012 - 2014 | Assessment of the etiology of infant viral gastroenteritis with focus on rotavirus infection in Huambo region, Angola
ROTA-ANGOLA
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Ministério da Saúde
Concluded
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2012 - 2014 | Aetiology of Diarrhoea in children under five at the Bengo General Hospital, in Angola
CISA 12-2012-PN
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Angola Camões Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Ministério da Saúde Concluded
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2012 - 2013 | Desafios e soluções para o controlo de doenças parasitárias – ensino e investigação
ID-121916
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Concluded
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2011 - 2013 | Rotavirus epidemiology and surveillance in the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Principe; molecular characterization of
the circulating strains
ROTA-STP
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr Concluded
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2010/01/01 - 2013 | Immunotherapy of African trypanosomiasis in the mouse model by DNA vaccination
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2008 - 2010 | Pathogenesis and treatment of viral diarrhoea
ID: K378-2007
Post-doc Fellow
Linköpings Universitet Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Sweden
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Sida
Concluded
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2008 - 2010 | Viral gastroenteritis: Disease mechanism and host genetics of susceptibility
ID: K2008-56
Post-doc Fellow
Linköpings Universitet Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Sweden
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Vetenskapsradet
Concluded
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2004 - 2007 | Genética, Estequiometria e Cinética do Empacotamento Múltiplo de Proteínas da Partícula Idêntica a Rotavírus
Technical development
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2004 - 2006 | Novel strategies for a safe rotavirus vaccine
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Regions of Knowledge
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2016/03 - 2016/04 | Rotavirus in São Tomé
ROTA-STP-W
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical
Concluded
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2014 - 2014 | Global access to safe water: microbiology and eco-recycling for our benefit
SAFE Water
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Newspaper 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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2019 | Rotavirus diarrhea and intestinal motility is attenuated in 5-HT3R KO mice | European Expert Meeting on Rotavirus Vaccination with 8th European Rotavirus Biology Meeting
(Riga, Latvia)
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2018 | Molecular epidemiology of rotavirus in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe before vaccine introduction | 2ªs Jornadas do Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC), Universidade do Algarve
Universidade do Algarve (Olhão, Portugal)
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2017 | Rotavirus and acute gastro-enteritis in African children | 4th National Congress on Tropical Medicine
Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2015 | Rotavírus epidemiology in four districts of Angola before vaccine introduction | 6th European Rotavirus Biology Meeting (ERBM)
(Dijon, France)
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2014 | Norovirus infection and disease in Portuguese elderly: a glimpse on viral epidemiology and host genetics | 12th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases
(Bangcoque, Thailand)
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2014 | Rotavirus epidemiology studies in Portuguese Speaking African countries: Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe | 8th African Rotavirus Symposium” that will be held under the theme “Rotavirus Landscape in Africa - Towards Prevention and
Control
(Livingstone)
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2013 | Rotavirus strain characterization- baseline study for rotavirus vaccine introduction in São Tomé and Príncipe | Fighting NTDs in Portuguese-speaking African countries
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2013 | First report on rotavirus genotypes from the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe: high prevalence of G8P[6] genotype | 5th European Congress of Virology
(Lyon, France)
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2012 | Rotavirus epidemiology and emergence of G8P6 strain in the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Principe in 2011 | 2nd National Congress of Tropical Medicine
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2011 | Rotavirus Increases Small Intestinal Motility but not Permeability, at the time of diarrhoea onset | European Rotavirus Biology Meeting
(Altafiumara)
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2010 | Rotavirus Increases Small Intestinal Motility but not Permeability, at the time of Diarrhoea | Swedish Network for Gastrointestinal Infection and Inflammation Meeting
(Gotemburgo, Sweden)
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2008 | Amount of maternal antibodies influence the immune response to neonatal immunization with chimeric rotavirus Rf 8*2/6/7 VLPs | : 2nd Rotavirus Biology Meeting
(Estocolmo, Sweden)
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2006 | Evaluation of rotavirus-like particles (RV-VLPs) immune response in gnotobiotic pig model | International Congress of Veterinary Virology
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2006 | Role of Serotonin and enterochromaffin cells in rotavirus disease | at 2nd Smögen Symposium on Virology
(Smogen, Sweden)
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1998 | The influence of some phythotherapeutical products (Eridiarom and Polivitarom) on the rate of tumoral proliferation and the process of metastasis, in rats | 5th edition Romanian Veterinarian Students Symposium
(Cluj-Napoca)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2018 - 2022 | Epidemiology and characterization of rotavirus strains circulating in Angola after Rotarix vaccine introduction
Co-supervisor
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2014 - 2015 | Identification and characterization of enteric viruses (norovirus, astrovirus and adenovirus) in children with acute diarrhea
in Angola
Co-supervisor
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2014 - 2015 | Norovirus infection and disease in Portuguese elderly: a glimpse on epidemiology and host genetics
Supervisor
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2013 - 2014 | Rotavirus epidemiology and surveillance in the Huambo region of Angola
Supervisor
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2013 - 2014 | Norovirus infection and disease in Portuguese elderly: a glimpse on epidemiology and host genetics
Supervisor
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2012 - 2013 | Rotavirus epidemiology and surveillance in the Democratic Republic of Sao Tomé and Principe; molecular characterization of
the circulating strains
Supervisor
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2025/02/11 - 2025/02/11 | International Seminar: "African Swine Fever Virus: An Emerging Global Challenge" (2025/02/11 - 2025/02/11)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal |
2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09 | Internacional Conference: "Present Challenges in Veterinary Vaccines" (2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal |
2016 - 2016 | International Workshop to present rotavirus vaccine to health workers (medical doctors, nurses, technicians, NGO workers etc.)
before introduction in the National Immunization Programme in São Tomé and Príncipe (2016 - 2016)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
2014 - 2014 | International Seminar on “Global access to safe water: microbiology and eco-recycling for our benefit” . (2014 - 2014)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2011 - 2014 | Participar no Dia Aberto, apresentar para o público geral trabalho em virologia clínca
Other
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Dia Aberto
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2024 | Process Optimisation of Functionalised Adenovirus-like Particle (ADDomer) to use as a Snakebite Therapy
(Thesis) Arguer
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Mariana Teles Gomes Raposo Bettencourt (Master) |
2024 | Rotavirus A in Mozambique: Undernutrition, risk factors, and vaccine effectiveness (Rotarix®) in children under five years
old with diarrhea
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Assucênio Hortêncio Chissaque (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2022 | Epidemiological and genetic characterization of Norovirus outbreaks occurred in LVT region, Portugal 2017-2022
(Thesis) Arguer
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Mafalda Brites de Araújo Lucas (Other) |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2017 - 2019 | Portuguese Society for Virology | Member |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2012 - 2014 | Mestrado Saúde Tropical/Métodos Avançados em Biologia Molecular | Saúde Tropical (Mestrado) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
2012 - 2014 | Doutoramento em Genética Humana e Doenças Infecciosas/Experimentação laboratorial in vivo e in vitro | Genética Humana e Doenças Infecciosas (Doutoramento) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
2011 - 2013 | Mestrado Microbiologia Médica/Epidemiologia dos virus que causam gastroenterite | Microbiologia Médica (Mestrado) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2016 - Current | TV STP Mais, Jornal de Notícias, | Rotavirus in São Tomé and Principe (STP) |
2014 - Current | TV Ciência | Rotavirus epidemiology in two Portuguese speaking African countries: Angola and São Tomé and Principe |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2017 | Travel Grant
GAVI Alliance, Switzerland
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2016 | Travel Grant
GAVI Alliance, Switzerland
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2014 | Travel Grant
GAVI Alliance, Switzerland
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2007 | Postdoc fellowship
Linköpings Universitet Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin, Sweden
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2001 | PhD Fellowship
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
2000 | Erasmus Fellowship
Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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