João Francisco Marques Mazeda Pereira (C91E-139E-1282)

Curriculum Vitae

João Francisco Marques Mazeda Pereira

João Mazeda completed his bachelor's in Bioengineering in 2020 at Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia (ESB-UCP) and his Master's in Biomedical Engineering in 2022 at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). During his degrees, he presented a poster, participated in various events, and helped in organizing 3 others. He developed his master's thesis at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S) under the scope of a project developed in collaboration with IPO-Porto and funded by FCT (TRIMARKCHIP). He focused on the development of novel microfluidic platforms for the detection and isolation of circulating tumor biomarkers for lung cancer management. The main outputs of his thesis work include the identification of novel biomarkers in lung cancer circulating tumor cells (PPA: PT 119401), and a pending paper in the finishing stages. He then ventured abroad for an internship at the Applied Stem Cells Group (AST) from the University of Twente, where he helped on a project integrated into the LymphChip consortium, focusing on the development of microvascular networks to be implemented into organ-on-chip systems. He is currently a Researcher at the COMPASS Research group- CICECO from the University of Aveiro, where he is part of the European project "PRInted Symbiotic Materials as a dynamic platform for Living Tissues production".

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: João Francisco Marques Mazeda Pereira

Citation names

Mazeda, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C91E-139E-1282
ORCID iD: 0009-0009-7894-0602

Email addresses

jmazeda@ua.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022/09/28 Concluded	Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "A Microfluidics Approach for Minimally Invasive Isolation and Protein Profiling of CTCs in Lung Cancer " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2020/07/27 Concluded	Bioengineering (Licenciatura) Major in Biomedical Engineering Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/02/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal

2023/01/17 - 2023/07/17	Research Trainee (Research)	Universiteit Twente, Netherlands

2022/10/01 - 2023/01/15	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

2021/11 - 2022/09/28	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01/15 - 2022/03/16	Assistente (Técnico Superior de Saúde)	Administração Regional de Saúde de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo IP, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/02/01 - Current	PRInted Symbiotic Materials as a dynamic platform for Living Tissues production 101070913 Research Fellow	European Innovation Council Ongoing
2023/01/17 - 2023/07/17	Developing immunocompetent human organ-on-a-chip models with integrated lymph drainage for drug discovery and testing NWA.1292.19.019 Intern Researcher
2022/10/01 - 2023/01/15	The Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center PINFRA03/72678/2020 10.54499/PINFRA03/72678/2020 Research Assistant Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular, Portugal Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2021/11 - 2022/09/28	Assessing the trifecta of cancer circulating biomarkers: a combined microfluidics platform for detection of CTCs, exosomes and ctDNA PTDC/BTM-TEC/30831/2017 POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030831 Intern Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Mazeda, João; Fernando Jorge Monteiro; Carvalho, Angela. "A Microfluidics Approach for Minimally Invasive Isolation and Protein Profiling of CTCs in Lung Cancer". Paper presented in Encontro de Jovens da U.Porto- IJUP, 2022.
Thesis / Dissertation	"A Microfluidics Approach for Minimally Invasive Isolation and Protein Profiling of CTCs in Lung Cancer". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2022.

Intellectual property

Provisional application for patent

2024. "Methods for the isolation, detection, and characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in biological samples and analysis of CTCs protein biomarkers relevant to lung cancer diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and minimal residual disease detection".
Disclosed

Activities

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2021/04/17 - 2021/04/17	The "Rise and Get Wise" event comprised two talks with great insights about neuroengineering. (2021/04/17 - 2021/04/17) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal IEEE, United States
2021/02/15 - 2021/02/15	The "Rise and Get Wise" event comprised two talks with great insights about 3D Bioprinting. (2021/02/15 - 2021/02/15) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal IEEE, United States
2020/12/08 - 2020/12/08	The "Rise and Get Wise" event comprised two talks with great insights about machine learning. (2020/12/08 - 2020/12/08) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal IEEE, United States

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/03/10 - 2024/03/15	The SUPRAlife Second School is organized by the COMPASS Research Group at the University of Aveiro (UAVR; Coordinator) in close collaboration with the consortium partners Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the University of Bordeaux (UBx) and its affiliated entities Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux (Bordeaux INP) and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Conference	SUPRAlife Second School Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/03/26 - 2021/03/28	The Symposium on Bioengineering is organized by Bioengineering Students Associations from the Faculty of Engineering of Porto/ School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (NEB-FEUP/ICBAS). Symposium	XII Symposium on Bioengineering Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2019/10/12 - 2019/10/12	Promoted by the alumni of Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, this forum targets innovation in the biomedical area and joins recognized specialists in its panel. Conference	Biotechnology Innovation Forum: Think Big in Biotechnology Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal
2019/04/03 - 2019/04/04	Organized by students this event aims to provide students with valuable knowledge, counting with great talks and workshops	Jornadas de Biotecnologia Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2020/10 - 2022/10	IEEE UP Student Branch- EMBS	Member of the association, responsible for the development of scientific projects and organization of events (such as Rise and Get Wise)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/01/19 - Current	New technologies and experimental models in biomedicine	(Outros)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Distinctions

Other distinction

2018	Merit Scholarship Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal