Cátia Sofia Palma Correia (DA1B-3482-0853)

Curriculum Vitae

Cátia Sofia Palma Correia

Cátia Correia was born in 1990 in Vila Real de Santo António. Her academic journey started in 2008 at the NOVA School of Science and Technology, with a graduation in Biochemistry, with a final grade of 14/20. During her degree, she participated in the Erasmus Program, where she had the opportunity to study for 6 months at Università degli Studi di Verona. During her degree journey, she also enrolled in the project BII_CQFB_2009-2010- “Phosphorus compounds with potential biological activity” as a researcher trainee. After her degree’s final project, entitled “Development of a disposable electrochemical biosensor for nitrite quantification,” under the supervision of Prof. M. Gabriela Almeida, she had the opportunity to keep working on the CQFB-REQUIMTE for more than 6 months as a researcher train-ee. In 2012, she enrolled in a Master's degree course in Neuroscience at Lisbon School of Medicine with a final degree of 17/20. Her master’s thesis was developed at the neuropathology laboratory of Hospital Santa Maria under the supervision of Prof. Dr. José Pimentel with a project entitled” Quanti-ficação celular em meningiomas”. In 2015-2016 she integrated the project “NanoCoatIL - High performance nanostructured coat-ings using ionic liquids based on choline chloride” as researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Porto. In 2017-2018 she integrated the project “Cryocube” from Portugal 2020, as a researcher. Cátia Correia joined the 3B’s Research Group in 2019 to work on the project “Seaglue4GI- Multifunctional marineinspired bioadhesives as medical devices for gastrointestinal anastomosis re-pair” under the supervision of Prof. Natália M. Alves. Since January 2020, Cátia has been conducting her Ph.D. in 3B’s, supported by FCT individual scholarship under the supervision of Prof. Natália M. Alves and Dr. Iva Pashkuleva. Her PhD focuses on studying and developing bioadhesive materials for soft tissue healing, especially for neuronal repair. During this time, she had the opportunity to work for 6 months at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in Malaysia under the scope of a Shift Project funded by the European Union under the MSCA-RISE instrument. Published 9 articles in journals. Has 1 section(s) of books. Participated in 10 event(s). Has received 5 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Integration into Research Grant Fellow in 1 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s) and Research Fellow in 3 project(s).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Cátia Sofia Palma Correia

Citation names

Correia, Cátia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: DA1B-3482-0853
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4593-7660

Email addresses

catia.correia@i3bs.uminho.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Electrochemistry
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Italian	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2020/01/01 - 2025/01/31 Ongoing	PhD Program in Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells (TERM&SC) (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Bioadhesive material for regeneration of Spinal Cord" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/07/26 Concluded	Neurosciences (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal "Quantificação Celular em Meningiomas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2012 Concluded	Biochemistry (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal "Development of a disposable electrochemical biosensor for nitrite quantification" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	14

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/04/11 - 2024/09/30	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz UKM, Malaysia

2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Researcher (Research)	Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal

2017/08/30 - 2018/07/30	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal

2015/06/18 - 2016/03/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Portugal

2012/02/15 - 2012/07/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

2009/10/01 - 2010/01/31	Research Trainee (Research)	REQUIMTE, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2011/09 - 2011/12	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/01/02 - Current	PhD student	Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal

2013/04/11 - 2014/07/31	Master's project at Neuropatology Lab "Quantificação Celular em Meningiomas"	Hospital de Santa Maria, Portugal

2011/09/21 - 2012/02/04	Final project in Biochemistry "Desenvolvimento de Biosensores Electroquímicos para Quantificação de Nitritos"	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

2011/10/01 - 2011/11/30	Curso de Ciências Forenses (30 horas)	Associação Portuguesa de Técnicos de Analises Clinicas e Saúde Publica (APTAC), Portugal

2010/02/15 - 2010/07/31	Erasmus programme	Università degli Studi di Verona Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Italy

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/01/01 - Current	Bioadhesive materials for regeneration of Spinal cord SFRH/BD/143209/2019 PhD Student Fellow Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Seaglue4GI- Multifunctional marineinspired bioadhesives as medical devices for gastrointestinal anastomosis repair MIT-EXPL/BIO/0089/2017 Research Fellow Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2017/08/29 - 2018/12/31	Cryocube Cryocube - Portugal 2020 Research Fellow Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2015/06/18 - 2016/03/31	NanoCoatIL - High performance nanostructured coatings using ionic liquids based on choline chloride M-ERA.NET/0009/2012 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2009/09/15 - 2010/01/31	Phosphorus compounds with potential biological activity BII_CQFB_2009-2010 Integration into Research Grant Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Correia, Cátia; Rodrigues, Marcelo; Silveira, Célia M. ; Moura, José J. G. ; Ochoteco, Estibaliz; Jubete, Elena; Almeida, M. Gabriela. "Nitrite Biosensing Using Cytochrome C Nitrite Reductase: Towards a Disposable Strip Electrode". In Communications in Computer and Information Science, edited by Gabriel, Joaquim; Schier, Jan; Van Huffel, Sabine; Conchon, Emmanuel; Correia, Carlos; Fred, Ana; Gamboa, Hugo, 41-50. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 10.1007/978-3-642-38256-7_3
Conference paper	Rodrigues, Marcelo ; Correia, Cátia; Silveira, Célia M. ; Moura, José J. G. ; Ochoteco, Estibaliz; Jubete, Elena; Almeida, M. Gabriela. "Nitrite biosensing with disposable electrode strips: A preliminary study". 2012.
Conference poster	Correia, Cátia. "Adhesives films based on marine-derived fucoidan and chitosan with antibacterial potential". Paper presented in ESB 2023, 2023. Correia, Cátia; Sousa, Rita O.; Vale, A. Catarina; Peixoto, Daniela; Silva, Tiago H.; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Adhesive and biodegradable membranes from marine origin raw materials for soft tissue engineering". Paper presented in Termis eu 2023, 2023. Correia, Cátia; Soares da Costa, Diana; Inácio, Ana Rita; Vale, Ana C.; Peixoto, Daniela; Silva, Tiago H.; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Marine-based biodegradable films with antibacterial and adhesive properties". Paper presented in HEALTH-UNORTE CONFERENCE, 2023. Correia, Cátia; Soares da Costa, Diana; Ana Rita Inácio; Peixoto, Daniela; Vale, A. Catarina; Silva, Tiago H.; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Adhesive and antibacterial membranes from marine-derived fucoidan and chitosan". 2022. Peixoto, Daniela; Correia, Cátia; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Chitosan hydrogels Inspired by mussels with superior adhesion for bone tissue regeneration". Paper presented in Workshop MicSeaOnMed & Final Achilles Conference, 2022. Diogo Duarte; Peixoto, Daniela; Correia, Cátia; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Bioadhesive hydrogels based on Hyaluronic acid for spinal cord regeneration". Paper presented in Workshop MicSeaOnMed & Final Achilles Conference, 2022. Peixoto, Daniela; Correia, Cátia; Soares da Costa, Diana; Reis, R. L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Injectable thermosensitive catechol-modified chitosan hydrogels with superior adhesion for bone tissue regeneration". Paper presented in FoReCaST Final Conference, 2021. Fernandes, Filipa; Peixoto, Daniela; Correia, Cátia; Silva, Magda; Paiva, Maria; Alves, Natália M.. "Hydrogels based on catechol-modified hyaluronic acid combined with graphene derivatives for biomedical applications". Paper presented in FoReCaST Final Conference, 2021. Correia, Cátia; Sousa, Rita O.; Vale, Ana C.; Peixoto, Daniela; Silva, Tiago H.; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. Corresponding author: Alves, Natália M.. "Marine origin membranes based on chitosan and collagen". Paper presented in Third Achilles Workshop- "Gene & Cell therapy and Clinical Applications, 2021. Correia, Cátia; Peixoto, Daniela; Vale, Ana C.; Alves, Natália M.. "Production and characterization of tissue adhesives for Gastrointestinal repair". Paper presented in Second Achilles Conference on Tendon Biophysical Environment and TERM STEM Conference, 2019. 10.1063/1.3453775 Correia, Cátia; Costa, Vania C; Peixoto, Daniela; Alves, Natália M.. "Production of tissue adhesives based on marine-derived materials for Gastrointestinal repair". Paper presented in 1st Discoveries Forum on Regenerative and Precision Medicine, 2019.
Journal article	Fernandes, Filipa; Peixoto, Daniela; Correia, Cátia; Silva, Magda; Paiva, Maria C.; Alves, Natália M.. "Mussel-Inspired Hydrogels Incorporating Graphite Derivatives for Soft Tissue Regeneration". Nanomaterials 15 4 (2025): 276. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano15040276. 10.3390/nano15040276 Albuquerque, Afonso V.; Soares da Costa, Diana; Correia, Cátia; Reis, Rui L.; Alves, Natália M.; Costa, Rui R.; Pashkuleva, Iva. "Effect of Hyaluronan Molecular Weight on the Stability and Biofunctionality of Microfibers Assembled by Interfacial Polyelectrolyte Complexation". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2025): https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c18335. 10.1021/acsami.4c18335 Correia, Cátia; Peixoto, Daniela; da Costa, Diana Soares; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Development and in vitro assessment of injectable, adhesive, and self-healing chitosan-based hydrogels for treatment of spinal cord injury". Biomaterials Advances (2024): 214090. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bioadv.2024.214090. 10.1016/j.bioadv.2024.214090 Melo, Eduardo P.; El-Guendouz, Soukaina; Correia, Cátia; Teodoro, Fernando; Lopes, Carlos. "A conformational-dependent interdomain redox relay at the core of Protein Disulfide Isomerase activity". (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.24.529848. 10.1101/2023.02.24.529848 Duarte, Diogo; Correia, Cátia; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Peixoto, Daniela; Alves, Natália M.. Corresponding author: Alves, Natália M.. "Bioadhesive Hyaluronic Acid-Based Hydrogels for Spinal Cord Injury". Biomacromolecules (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01186. Accepted • 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01186 Silva, Magda; Gomes, Susana; Correia, Cátia; Peixoto, Daniela; Vinhas, Adriana; Rodrigues, Márcia T.; Gomes, Manuela E.; et al. "Biocompatible 3D-Printed Tendon/Ligament Scaffolds Based on Polylactic Acid/Graphite Nanoplatelet Composites". Nanomaterials 13 18 (2023): 2518. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano13182518. 10.3390/nano13182518 Correia, Cátia; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Adhesive and self-healing materials for central nervous system repair". Biomaterials Advances (2023): 213439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bioadv.2023.213439. In press • 10.1016/j.bioadv.2023.213439 Correia, Cátia; Soares da Costa, Diana; Inácio, Ana Rita; Vale, A. Catarina; Peixoto, Daniela; Silva, Tiago H.; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. "Adhesive and Antibacterial Films Based on Marine-Derived Fucoidan and Chitosan". ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10 50 (2022): 16770-16779. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c05144. 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c05144 Correia, Cátia; Sousa, Rita O.; Vale, Ana C.; Peixoto, Daniela; Silva, Tiago H.; Reis, Rui L.; Pashkuleva, Iva; Alves, Natália M.. Corresponding author: Alves, Natália M.. "Adhesive and biodegradable membranes made of sustainable catechol-functionalized marine collagen and chitosan". Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (2022): 112409-112409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112409. 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112409 Correia, Cátia; Tavares, Evandro; Lopes, Carlos; Silva, Joana G.; Duarte, Andreia; Geraldes, Vitor; Rodrigues, Miguel A.; Melo, Eduardo P.. "Stability of protein formulations at sub-zero temperatures by isochoric cooling". Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xphs.2019.06.017. 10.1016/j.xphs.2019.06.017
Thesis / Dissertation	Correia, Cátia. "Quantificação celular em meningiomas". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, 2016. Correia, Cátia. "Development of a disposable electrochemical biosensor for nitrite quantification". Degree, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2012.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/09/12	Adhesive and biodegradable films based on marine origin raw materials with antibacterial properties	Shift Summer School 2023 (Trento, Italy)
2023/04/03	Adhesive and biodegradable membranes from marine origin raw materials for soft tissue engineering applications	REMIX Final Workshop on “Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: Potential, Exploitation and Validation of Natural Materials” (Braga, Portugal)
2019/07/14	STABILITY OF PROTEIN FORMULATIONS AT SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES BY ISOCHORIC COOLING (19AF) Complex Fluids 2019, ORAL 105	Biological and Pharmaceutical Complex Fluids III: Protein Self-Assembly, Rheology and Interfacial Properties (Hernstein, Austria)
2018/11/12	Cold Stability Accelerator: a new method to assess the impact of cold and cryopreservatives on Protein Disulfide Isomerase activity	10th PEGS Summit Europe, Protein & Antibody Engineering Summit IEEE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10/25	Live-cell imaging of protein disaggregation in the Endoplasmic Reticulum	7th iberian congress on prions (Laguardia, Spain)
2012/02/03	Nitrite biosensing with disposable electrode strips: A preliminary study.	BIODEVICES 2012- 5th Intern. Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Device (Vilamoura, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/04/03 - 2023/04/04	REMIX 2023 (2023/04/03 - 2023/04/04) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Biomateriais Biodegradáveis e Biomiméticos, Portugal
2019/11/06 - 2019/11/08	Discovery 2019 (2019/11/06 - 2019/11/08)	Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Biomateriais Biodegradáveis e Biomiméticos, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/10/24 - Current	Programa VEM - Vamos Experimentar a UMinho 2023 Other	Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Biomateriais Biodegradáveis e Biomiméticos, Portugal
2023/07/17 - Current	verão no Campus 23	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/07/19 - Current	Verão no Campus 21 Meeting	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09/11 - 2023/09/15	Next generation of bio-responsive materias in TERM Workshop	Shift Summer School 2023
2022/05/24 - 2022/05/27	Workshop MicSeaOnMed & Final Achilles Conference Conference
2021/10/27 - 2021/10/29	FoReCaST Final Conference Conference
2021/10/25 - 2021/10/27	Third Achilles Workshop- "Gene & Cell therapy and Clinical Applications Conference
2019/11/04 - 2019/11/08	2nd Achilles Conference/ TERM STEM 2019 Conference
2019/05/08 - 2019/05/08	Translational Science in Musculoskeletal Disorders Conference
2013/04/20 - 2013/04/20	Workshop on Biomedical Engineering, 5th edition Workshop	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2012/10/09 - 2012/10/10	Brain.org, Fórum Gulbenkian de Saúde 2012	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2011/10/01 - 2011/11/30	Forensic science course ( 30 Hours) Other	Associação Portuguesa de Técnicos de Analises Clinicas e Saúde Publica (APTAC), Portugal
2011/05/11 - 2011/05/11	Jortec Tecnológicas sobre o tema Bioquímica para Amanha	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/06/26 - 2024/07/17	SHIFT online 1º course on Green Chemistry Presentation title: From waste to biomaterials: Chitosan		Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
2015/02/19 - 2015/02/19	Presentation of "Quantificação Celular em Meningiomas" in Neuropathology lesson	Neurociências (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2011/09 - 2011/12	Enzyme Kinetics ( practice classes) - Berkeley Madonna Software	Bioquímica (Licenciatura)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2021/10/01 - 2023/10/31	Bioadhesive hydrogels based on hyaluronic acid for regeneration of Spinal Cord	Diogo Duarte
2021/10/01 - 2022/12/03	Dopamine-Modified Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel with Optimized Electrical Properties for Biomedical Applications	Fábio S. Gonçalves

Distinctions

Other distinction

2008	Diploma da Escola Secundária de Vila Real de Santo António, tendo concluído o curso Cientifico- humanístico de Ciências e Tecnologias com classificação final honrosa de 16 (dezasseis) valores no ano lectivo 2007/ 2008
2007	Quadro de valor da Escola Secundária de Vila Real de Santo António ano lectivo 2006/ 2007 pela responsabilidade demonstrada no cumprimento de todas as actividades, bem como no companheirismo e disponibilidade para com os colegas
2005	Quadro de Excelência da Escola Básica 2,3 D.José I de Vila Real de Santo António ano lectivo 2004/ 2005 pelos resultados escolares obtidos
2003	Quadro de Excelência da Escola Básica 2,3 D.José I de Vila Real de Santo António ano lectivo 2002/ 2003 pelos resultados escolares obtidos
2001	Quadro de Excelência da Escola Básica 2,3 D.José I de Vila Real de Santo António ano lectivo 2000/ 2001 pelos resultados escolares obtidos