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Pedro Alves has a MSc in Bioengineering - Molecular Biotechnology from FEUP. Pedro is currently a PhD student in the Doctoral Programme in Biomedical Engineering (PRODEB) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) and is working on covalent conjugation of antimicrobial peptides onto polysaccharides to develop novel biomaterials to fight infection in skin chronic wounds. The work is being developed at i3S, in Porto, Portugal, at BioEngineered Surfaces group, under the supervision of Dr Cristina Martins. Pedro has co-authored 4 scientific publications in Q1 international publications (mean IF: 6.67, with a total of 28 citations) and presented his work at 21 scientific conferences: 13 oral (8 International / 5 National) and 9 poster communications (4 International / 5 National). He has received 6 awards for best oral communication. During his MSc, Pedro was a research trainee in Dr Claudio Sunkel's lab at i3S , where he had the opportunity to help in a project of characterising a protein involved in the metaphase-to-anaphase transition during mitosis. Afterwards, he was part of the Ladame group at Imperial College London, UK for a 5-month traineeship under the ERASMUS+ exchange programme, where he worked towards the development of a reliable and affordable portable device for the detection of prostate cancer biomarkers. Later on, Pedro worked on his Master Thesis under the supervision of Dr Cristina Barrias were he focused on the development of a high-throughput cell-in-gel platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Miguel Pinto Basto Alves
Date of birth
1995/09/26
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Alves, Pedro
  • Pedro M. Alves

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B91E-5F2A-B0A3
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4702-4336

Email addresses

  • pmalves@i3s.up.pt (Professional)
  • pedrompbalves@hotmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 220408800 (Professional)

Addresses

  • i3s - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde. Rua Alfredo Allen, 208 , 4200-135 , Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09/27 - 2023/09/27
Ongoing
 Programa Doutoral em Engenharia Biomédica (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/05
Concluded
 FELASA accredited Course for functions A, B and D (mouse, rat, zebrafish and fish species-specific) aligned with the European Directive 2010/63]. (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2018/07/12
Concluded
 Bioengenharia (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"High-throughput cell-in-gel microarray platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/11/15 - 2019/11/14 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017/10 - 2018/07/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2017/02 - 2017/07 Research Trainee (Research) Imperial College London, United Kingdom
2015/10 - 2016/12 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/12/01 - Current PhD student Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/12/01 - Current BioHeal - Bioactivatable modular dressing for chronic infected wounds
SFRH/BD/145471/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/02/01 - Current BIOGEN: Biofilm genetic regulation in the treatment of Chronic Wound Infection
2022.04739.PTDC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
2019/12/01 - Current AntINFECT
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031781-AntINFEC
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/11/15 - 2019/11/14 ANTINFECT
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031781-AntINFEC
Research Fellow
2017/10 - 2018/07/31 3DEMT
PTDC/BBB-ECT/2518/2014
Other
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Alves, Pedro; Araújo, Marco; Bidarra, Sílvia J.; Barrias, Cristina C.. "High-throughput cell-in-gel microarray platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices". Paper presented in IJUP '19 - Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto, Porto, 2019.
Conference poster
  1. "Wound'n't it be nice? Spray-dried chitosan microspheres functionalized with antimicrobial peptides to fight infection in chronic wounds". Paper presented in 4th PhDay – Break borders, build opportunities, 2021.
  2. "Antimicrobial peptide immobilization opens the door for improved chitosan-based dressings for chronic infected wounds". Paper presented in TERMIS 2021, 2021.
  3. "Efficient antimicrobial peptide tethering onto chitosan via thiol-norbornene photoclick chemistry". Paper presented in 11th World Biomaterials Congress 2020, 2020.
  4. "Chitosan modified with antimicrobial peptides to address bacterial burden in chronic wounds". Paper presented in 3rd PhDay | Back to the Future, 2020.
  5. Pedro M. Alves; Rúben Pereira; Beatriz Costa; Natália Fagundes; Cátia Teixeira; Paula Gomes; Fabíola Costa; M Cristina L Martins. "Efficient antimicrobial peptide tethering onto chitosan via thiol-norbornene photoclick chemistry". Paper presented in i3s Annual Meeting, 2019.
  6. Alves, Pedro; Araújo, Marco; Bidarra, Sílvia J.; Barrias, Cristina C.. "High-throughput cell-in-gel microarray platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices". Paper presented in VII AEICBAS Biomedical Congress, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Alves, Pedro; Rúben F. Pereira; Teixeira, Catia; Leiro, Victoria; Monteiro, Claudia; Gomes, Paula; Costa, Fabíola; M. Cristina L. Martins. "Thiol-Norbornene Photoclick Chemistry for Grafting Antimicrobial Peptides onto Chitosan to Create Antibacterial Biomaterials". ACS Applied Polymer Materials 4 7 (2022): 5012-5026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.2c00563.
    Accepted • 10.1021/acsapm.2c00563
  2. Pedro M Alves ; Barrias, Cristina; Gomes, Paula; M. Cristina L. Martins. "Smart biomaterial-based systems for intrinsic stimuli-responsive chronic wound management". Materials Today Chemistry 22 (2021): 100623-100623. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mtchem.2021.100623.
    10.1016/j.mtchem.2021.100623
  3. Marco Araújo; Sílvia J. Bidarra; Pedro M. Alves; Jesús Valcarcel; José A. Vásquez; Cristina C. Barrias. "Coumarin-grafted blue-emitting fluorescent alginate as a valuable tool for biomedical applications". Journal of Materials Chemistry B (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9tb01402k.
    10.1039/c9tb01402k
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Alves, Pedro. "High-throughput cell-in-gel microarray platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices". Master, 2018.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/09/06 The quest for survival in the highly proteolytic environment of a skin chronic wound: a case for efficient antimicrobial peptide conjugation 31st Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials
ESB
2021/06/28 When dialysis gets ‘mesh’y: removal of adsorbed peptide from high molecular weight chitosan to yield a contact-killing biomaterial Doctoral Congress in Engineering 2021
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
2020/09/28 Reduction in viable surface-adhered bacteria promoted by efficient conjugation of antimicrobial peptide (Dhvar5) onto chitosan Annual Student Research Conference 2020
EUGLOH
2019/06/26 High-throughput cell-in-gel microarray platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices Interrogations at the biointerface - 7th Advanced Summer School
INEB - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica (Porto, Portugal)
2019/02/13 "High-throughput cell-in-gel microarray platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices" IJUP '19 - Encontro de Investigação Jovem da Universidade do Porto 2019
Universidade do Porto

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/01/18 - 2022/04 i3s PhD Career Ladder Program. Peer led career mentoring program (2022/01/18 - 2022/04)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2021/09/05 - 2021/09/09 Volunteer in the 31st Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (2021/09/05 - 2021/09/09)
Conference (Other)
2021/09 - 2021/09 Young Scientists Forum at ESB 2021 (2021/09/05)
Workshop (Other)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/03/14 - 2019/03/17 Scientific competition - Poster contest: "High-throughput cell-in-gel microarray platform for the analysis of cell behaviour in 3D matrices" The poster presentation was evaluated by a jury (Dr Inês Gonçalves; Prof Luís Mira Vieira and others)
Congress
 VII AEICBAS Biomedical Congress
Associação de Estudantes ICBAS - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 1st prize for oral communication - Cancer screening and care, Antimicrobial resistance
2019 Award as one of the "Best Oral Communications" at IJUP '19
Universidade do Porto, Portugal