Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Joana Lia Cardoso de Sousa
Citation names
- Sousa, Joana L. C.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 7B10-20F8-D6CA
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1412-4197
- Scopus Author Id
- 36938560900
Email addresses
- joanasousa@ua.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Department of Chemistry of the University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://laqv.requimte.pt/people/1723-joana_l_c_sousa (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Medicinal Chemistry
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2016/10/28
Concluded
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Doctoral Programme in Chemistry (3rd cycle) (Doutoramento)
Major in Organic chemistry
Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação de Química Orgânica Produtos Naturais e Agroalimentares, Portugal
"Synthesis of functionalized oxygen heterocyclic compounds. Evaluation of the antioxidant activity of 3-hydroxylated derivatives" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved by unanimity with Honours and Distinction |
2009
Concluded
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MSc in Materials Derived from Renewable Resources (2nd cycle) (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
"New materials containing supported polyoxometalates and their application in oxidative catalysis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 (out of 20) |
2006
Concluded
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First degree in Chemistry (Licenciatura)
Major in Scientific
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Contribution to the synthesis of polyhydroxymethylated pyrrolidine derivatives as precursors of isoazahomonucleosides" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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14 (out of 20) |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/01/15 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | LAQV-REQUIMTE - Polo de Aveiro, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal | ||
2019/07/01 - 2022/07/15 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | LAQV-REQUIMTE - Polo de Aveiro, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal | ||
2017/01/01 - 2019/06/30 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação de Química Orgânica Produtos Naturais e Agroalimentares, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal | ||
2016/09/01 - 2016/12/31 | Research Trainee (Research) | REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, Portugal |
2007/09/01 - 2011/12/31 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2012/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | PhD Scholarship (Ref. SFRH/BD/76407/2011) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação de Química Orgânica Produtos Naturais e Agroalimentares, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2017/01/01 - 2019/06/30 | MultiBiorefinery - Multi-purpose strategies for broadband agro-forest and fisheries by-products valorisation: a step forward
for a truly integrated biorefinery
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2007/09/01 - 2008/08/31 | Polyoxometalates: from discrete clusters to networks and materials
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/07/01 - 2022/07/15 | EpigenGlicON - Novel C-glycosylated oxygen and nitrogen heterocyclic compounds as potential epigenetically active immune-stimulatory
anticancer agents
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029767
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação de Química Orgânica Produtos Naturais e Agroalimentares, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/02/01 - Current | MuTaTher-AD - "Multi-target theranostics for Alzheimer's disease"
2022.06064.PTDC
Team member
LAQV-REQUIMTE - Polo de Aveiro, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Conference abstract |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Intellectual property
Provisional application for patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/11 | Expanding the betulinic acid chemical space |
(Porto, Portugal)
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2023/07 | Nitro group-containing compounds as histone deacetylase inhibitors |
(Aveiro, Portugal)
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2022 | Betulinic acid as raw material to produce novel added-value compounds | 14th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 7th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2022 | Mild synthesis of nitrobenzenes from 3-formylchromones | XXVI Encontro Galego-Portugués de Química
(Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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2017 | MW-assisted synthesis of fused polycyclic compounds | XXIII Encontro Galego-Portugués de Química
(Ferrol, Spain)
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2015 | 3-Bromochromones as building blocks of novel furan and cyclopropane derivatives | Congresso de Química Orgânica e Química Terapêutica
(Porto, Portugal)
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2011 | Polyoxometalates in silica nanoparticles: multifunctional core/shell materials | XXII Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
(Braga, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023/09 - 2023/09 | Synthesis of trimethoprim derivatives
Co-supervisor of Hadjer Merazka
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2023/02 - 2023/07 | Cationic diarylpyridine-fused betulinic acid hybrids as new epi-drugs for cancer therapy
Supervisor of André Pinto
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2023/02 - 2023/06 | Revisiting the nitrobenzene scaffold for cancer therapy
Co-supervisor of Ivo Cruz
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2023/04 - 2023/05 | Structural characterization of novel 2-pyridone and carbamate derivatives
Supervisor of Maamar Haffas
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LAQV-REQUIMTE - Polo de Aveiro, Portugal
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2022/03 - 2022/07 | Synthesis of aminopyridines as histone deacetylases inhibitors
Supervisor of Leonardo Matias
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2022/03 - 2022/07 | Preliminary screening of potential histone deacetylases inhibitors. Structure-activity relationship profile of nitrobenzenes
Supervisor of Maria Grades
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal
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2022/01 - 2022/07 | Synthesis of libraries of oxygen and nitrogen heterocyclic compounds, and study of their binding with DNMT and HDAC enzymes
of cancer cells
Co-supervisor of Telmo Francisco
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LAQV-REQUIMTE - Polo de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal |
2021/03 - 2021/07 | Development of new epigenetic drugs for cancer therapy
Supervisor of Andreia Malafaia
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2019/02 - 2019/07 | Synthesis of new antimicrobial agents based on the functionalization of betulinic acid derivatives
Supervisor of Rogério Almeida
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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2017/10 - 2019/07 | Post-modification of cyclopropa[b]chromanones bearing an a,ß-unsaturated carbonyl system towards the synthesis of new nitrogen
heterocycle-containing hybrids
Supervisor of Nadia Bouhassane
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Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação de Química Orgânica Produtos Naturais e Agroalimentares, Portugal
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2017/10 - 2019/03 | Reactivity of 3-substituted chromone derivatives as dienes in Diels-Alder reactions under MW irradiation
Supervisor of Fatiha Nouali
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Universidade de Aveiro Unidade de Investigação de Química Orgânica Produtos Naturais e Agroalimentares, Portugal
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2018/02 - 2018/07 | Synthesis and evaluation of the antioxidant activity of polyhydroxylated compounds derived from 28-oxoallobetulone
Supervisor of Cristiana Gonçalves
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Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2024 - Current | Chemical Biology and Drug Design | |
2023 - Current | Molbank | |
2022 - Current | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | MDPI |
2020 - Current | Applied Sciences | MDPI |
2020 - Current | Medicinal Chemistry Research (1554-8120) | Springer-Verlag |
2019 - Current | Plants (2223-7747) | MDPI AG |
2019 - Current | Molecules (1420-3049) | MDPI AG |
2018 - Current | Journal of Chemistry | Hindawi |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2022/03 - Current | Organic Chemistry Laboratory | Licenciatura em Engenharia Química (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal |
2021/02 - 2021/07 | General Chemistry Laboratory | Licenciatura em Física (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal |
2021/02 - 2021/07 | General Chemistry Laboratory | Licenciatura em Geologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Química, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
2018 | Travel award (350$) to attend the 28th European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry (ECHC 2018) sponsored by IUPAC.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, United States
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2011 | Best poster award in the "VIII Jornadas do CICECO" with the communication entitled "Polyoxometalates in silica nanoparticles:
multifunctional core/shell materials".
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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2010 | Participation grant (85Eur) in the 2nd Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (2PYCheM) sponsored by Hovione.
Hovione, Portugal
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