Curriculum Vitae
Kevin Costa Leandro
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Kevin Costa Leandro
Citation names
- Leandro, Kevin
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- A912-D4BF-7E2C
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3404-5138
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2018/10 - 2019/08
Concluded
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ERASMUS + Programme - University of Ghent (Mestrado integrado)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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2013/09 - 2018/09
Concluded
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Integrated Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Università di Bologna - Università di Bologna, Italy Universiteit Gent, Belgium "Drug-resistant Epilepsy: An overview on the relevance of ABC Transporters Superfamily" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
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2016/09 - 2017/07
Concluded
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ERASMUS + Programme - University of Bologna (Mestrado integrado)
Università di Bologna - Università di Bologna, Italy
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2012
Concluded
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First Certificate of English (FCE) (Outros)
Cambridge English Language Assessment, Portugal
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B2 |
Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/11/01 - Current | PhD Student at CNC - Vectors, Gene and Cell Therapy Group | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| 2019/09/06 - 2020/10/28 | Research Fellow at CNC - Vectors, Gene and Cell Therapy Group | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2018/10 - 2019/08 | Erasmus Student at University of Ghent | Universiteit Gent, Belgium |
| 2018/11/05 - 2019/07 | Trainee at VIB - Center for Medical Biotechnology (Proteomics Expertise Center) | VIB UGent Centrum voor Medische Biotechnologie, Belgium |
| VIB UGent Centrum voor Medische Biotechnologie, Belgium | ||
| 2018/10 - 2018/10 | Trainee at CNC - Vectors, Gene and Cell Therapy Group | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal |
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2018/04/16 - 2018/08/17 | Trainee in Community Pharmacy | Farmácia Universal, Portugal |
| Farmácia Universal, Portugal | ||
| 2018/01/11 - 2018/03/30 | Trainee at INFARMED - Health Technology Assessment Department | Infarmed Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde IP, Portugal |
| Infarmed Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde IP, Portugal | ||
| 2017/08 - 2017/08 | Trainee at Guardian Pharmatama - Quality Assurance Department | Guardian Pharmatama, PT, Indonesia |
| 2016/09 - 2017/07 | Erasmus Student at University of Bologna | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Italy |
| 2016/08 - 2016/08 | Trainee in Community Pharmacy | Farmácia Machado, Portugal |
| Farmácia Machado, Portugal | ||
| 2016/01 - 2016/07 | Trainee at CHUC - Clinic Hematology Department | Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal |
| Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 - 2021 | Extracellular vesicles as a platform to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 systems to treat Machado-Joseph Disease
PhD Student Fellow
European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing access (EPIC-XS), Netherlands
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European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing access (EPIC-XS)
Ongoing
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2020/03 - 2020/06 | COVID-19 Task Force - University of Coimbra
Other
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Newspaper article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Artistic / Performance
| Theatre play |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/02/08 | Extracellular vesicles delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 RNPs for therapeutic gene editing in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 (presenting author) | 54th Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology
NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/11/24 | Extracellular Vesicles-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Systems to Treat Machado-Joseph Disease/Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 3 (presenting author) | Pharma PhD Day
Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/15 | Extracellular Vesicles-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Systems to Treat Machado-Joseph Disease (presenting author) | 2023 CAG Triplet Repeat Disorder -Gordon Research Conference
Gordon Research Conference (West Dover, Vermont, United States)
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| 2022/05/12 | Optimal recovery of brain-derived extracellular vesicles (presenting author) | 28th Porto Cancer Meeting
i3S (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2022/02/10 | Extracellular vesicles-mediated delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 systems for therapeutic genome editing (presenting author) | 52nd Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology
ICBAS-UP (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/11/14 | Extracellular communication mediated by EVs in mouse brain (co-author) | 1st Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles
i3S (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/09/14 | Extracellular vesicles-mediated delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 tools to treat Machado-Joseph Disease (presenting author) | 1st Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles
i3S (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/09/14 | Extracellular vesicles: a promising delivery system for silencing sequences to treat Machado-Joseph Disease (co-author) | 1st Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles
i3S (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2020/02/06 | Extracellular Vesicles for treatment of Machado-Joseph Disease (co-author) | SPF Meeting 2020 - Reunião Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia
Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2019/12/06 | An effective packaging cell line to highly produce Extracellular Vesicles for therapy of Machado-Joseph Disease (co-author) | Microbiotec - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2019
Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (Polo II) (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2019/11/08 | An extracellular vesicle-based system to deliver silencing sequences for therapy of Machado-Joseph disease/ Spinocerebellar Ataxia type-3 (co-author) | 5th International GEIVEX 2019 Symposium
Granada, Spain (Granada, Spain)
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2022 - Current | International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) | Member |
| 2021/09 - Current | Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN) | Member |
| 2020/02/27 - Current | European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) | Member |
Distinctions
Award
| 2022 | 1st Prize at "UC 3 Minute-Thesis Competition (3MT)"
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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| 2021 | 1st Prize at "EIT Health i-Days" - European Health Innovation Competition |
| 2020 | 1º Prize at "Building Tomorrow Together" - Acceleration and Open Innovation Competition promoted by Roche Portugal
Roche Portugal, Portugal
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| 2020 | 1st Prize at "Beyond the Lab" - Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Scientists
Chaperone - Platform for personalised career support for scientists, Portugal
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