PEOPLE

Paula A Videira

Paula A Videira

Principal Investigator

Departamento Ciências da Vida Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova Lisboa

Ana Catarina Santos

Ana Catarina Santos

MSc Student in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine

Ana Santos has a BSc degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology by NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA).

Aryane Pinheiro

Aryane Pinheiro

PhD Student

Aryane Pinheiro is a Pathology PhD student at the Federal University of Ceará and is conducting her work on the "Assessment of the Anticancer Potential of Lectins from Marine Organisms". She completed her bachelor's degree in Dental Medicine and her master's degree in Pathology.

Daniela Barreira

Daniela Barreira

PhD Student in Biology

Daniela Barreira has a BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology degree by NOVA School of Science and Technology and MSc degree in Biopharmaceutical Sciences from Universidade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa (FFUL), having conducted her Master Thesis project in Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas (CEDOC) of NOVA Medical School. Presently, she is doing her PhD which is aimed at understanding the impact of SARS-CoV-2 glycosylation in the viral infection and evaluate the potential glycan-based strategies for COVID-19 treatment and infection control.

Daniela Tomás

Daniela Tomás

MSc Student in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine

Daniela Tomás has a BSc degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology and is now pursuing a MSc degree in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, both by FCT NOVA. She is currently focusing on the implications of defective sialic acid conditions on cell stress response.

Inês Ribeiro

Inês Ribeiro

PhD Student in Biology

Inês Ribeiro has an integrated MSc in Biological Engineering by Instituto Superior Técnico. Currently, she is doing her PhD in Biology focused at studying the potential of Sialyl-Tn (STn) as a potential immunotherapy target against pancreatic cancer.

Inês Teodoro

Laboratory technician

Inês Teodoro has a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon as well as a master's degree in Clinical microbiology and emerging infectious diseases from Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon and a postgraduation in Pharmaceutical medicine at nova medical school. It is involved in the European glycotwining project. 

João Carrilho

João Carrilho

MSc Student in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine

João Carrilho has a BSc degree in Biochemistry by Faculdade Lusófona.

He is currently taking a MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine by FCT-UNL, which is focused on "Understanding the role of sialylted antigens in pancreatic cancer".

Margarida Nunes

Margarida Nunes

MSc Student in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine

Margarida Nunes holds a BSc in Biotechnology from Lusófona University and is now doing a MSc degree in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine from FCT NOVA. She is currently doing her master thesis in "Studying novel compounds to target PD-1/PD-L1 axis, and their antitumor therapeutic potential". 

Mariana Barbosa

Mariana Barbosa

Researcher, PhD

Mariana Barbosa holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Porto (FFUP).
Marta Falcão

Marta Falcão

PhD Student in Biology

Marta Falcão has a BSc in Cell and Molecular Biology by NOVA FCT and a MSc degree in Biomedical Sciences by IHMT NOVA. Currently, she is doing her PhD aimed at assessing the immunological response in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) both at the functional and molecular level to unravel new therapeutics, ultimately improving CDG patients' quality of life.
Rita Adubeiro Lourenço

Rita Adubeiro Lourenço

PhD Student in Biology

Lab 319, Departamento Ciências da Vida, NOVA School of Science and Technology

Rita Adubeiro Lourenço has a BSc degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology and an MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine, both from NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA). She is currently taking her PhD in Biology from FCT NOVA. This project focuses on studying sialic acid manipulation strategies as new immunotherapy approaches and its association with drug-carrying hydrogels. The work is conducted in the Glycoimmunology Lab (UCIBIO, i4HB) at FCT-NOVA in partnership with Stemmatters SA.

Zélia Silva

Zélia Silva

Researcher, PhD

Zélia Silva holds a PhD in Biochemistry and is a Pos Doc researcher who has been studying the role of glycans in the biology of immune dendritic cells (DCs) and cancer. She has studied the role of DC´s sialylated glycans on trafficking and the modulation of surface sialic acid content by ectosialyltransferases present at the cell surface. Her work has also contributed to elucidating the significant importance of sialic acid content of DC´s immunogenicity modulation.