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Catarina is a Biomedical Engineer, who graduated in 2023 from Instituto Superior Técnico, and specialized in novel wireless nanobioelectronic devices during her master's thesis, aiming to harness cancer bioelectricity. Passionate about nanotechnology, she focuses on creating innovative nanomaterials for healthcare applications. Her goal is to make cancer therapeutics more accessible and increase its efficacy and targeting by exploiting the disease's bioelectric properties.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
CATARINA FRANCO JONES

Citation names

  • Franco Jones, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9816-76AA-D326

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 915237749 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Technologies Involving the Manipulation of Cells, Tissues, Organs or the Whole Organism
  • Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology
  • Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology - Nano-materials
  • Engineering and Technology
  • Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Electrochemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/09/01 - 2023/12/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado)
Major in Engenharia de Tecidos e Medicina Regenerativa
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Novel Wireless Nanobioelectronic Systems to Rewire Cancer Bioelectricity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2018/09/01 - 2021/07/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Biomédica (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/06/01 - 2022/09/01 Research Trainee (Research) INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal
INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/04/08 - Current Wirelessly-activated multifunctional nanobioelectronics to enable novel oncological therapies
LCF/BQ/PI22/11910025
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal
 Fundação 'la Caixa'
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Franco Jones, Catarina ; Frederico Castelo Ferreira; Esteves, Teresa; Alberte, Paola. "Synthesis of BTO-PEDOT core-shell NPs as Wireless Nanobioelectronic Devices for Cancer Therapy". Paper presented in 3RD INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON POLYMERS & CHEMISTRY, 2024.
  2. Franco Jones, Catarina ; Alberte, Paola; Esteves, Teresa; Frederico Castelo Ferreira. "Novel Wireless Nanobioelectronic Systems to Rewire Cancer Bioelectricity". Paper presented in AIMS Meeting, 2024.
  3. Franco Jones, Catarina ; Esteves, Teresa; Sanjuan-Alberte, Paola; Frederico Castelo Ferreira. "Novel Wireless Nanobioelectronic Systems to Rewire Cancer Bioelectricity". Paper presented in Rede Saúde, 2023.
  4. Franco Jones, Catarina ; Akhil Jain; Frankie J. Rawson; Frederico Castelo Ferreira; Esteves, Teresa; Sanjuan Alberte, Paola. "Multifunctional nanoparticles to enable novel wireless Nanobioelectronics for cancer therapeutics". Paper presented in Cambridge Bioelectronics Symposium, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Jones, Catarina Franco; Resina, Leonor; Ferreira, Frederico Castelo; Sanjuan-Alberte, Paola; Esteves, Teresa. "Conductive Core–Shell Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128 27 (2024): 11083-11100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02012.
    10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02012
Preprint
  1. Jones, Catarina Franco; Carvalho, Marta S.; Jain, Akhil; Ferreira, Frederico Castelo; Esteves, Teresa; Sanjuan-Alberte, Paola. "Directing cancer cell fate with wireless barium titanate@PEDOT nanoparticles to control bioelectricity". 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4242920/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-4242920/v1
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Novel Wireless Nanobioelectronic Systems to Rewire Cancer Bioelectricity". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2023. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/cursos/mebiom21/dissertacao/846778572214438.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/14 Novel Wireless Nanobioelectronic Systems to Rewire Cancer Bioelectricity Rede Saúde
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/10/01 - 2023/08/01 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chair
2022/07/01 - 2023/08/01 Núcleo de Estudante de Engenharia Biomédia Financial Manager
Distinctions

Award

2024 Annual International (bio)Medical Students Meeting Research Competition Finalist
AstraZeneca Produtos Farmacêuticos Lda, Portugal
2023 Best Master Thesis Of University Of Lisbon - Oncology and Precision Medicine
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Title

2024 Academic Excellence Diploma
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal