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个人简介
I graduated in Microbiology in 2002 at UCP (1st of 46 students), joining Serrano lab, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, in 2003. There I met my PhD supervisors: Frederic Rousseau & Joost Schymkowitz, Switch Lab, VIB, Brussels (now at VIB, Leuven), Belgium. My PhD in Bioengineering – Biophysics, funded by BIF (2004-2006) and FCT (2006-2009), led to 3 articles and a patented fibril disassembly method. My PhD defence (2009/02/23) on amyloid fibrils stability was awarded the “Greatest Distinction” (top grade).
My post-doc (2009-2013) on dengue virus capsid protein biophysical studies, was funded by FCT and an European grant (supervisor: Nuno C. Santos, FMUL Lisbon, Portugal). I was awarded the Gulbenkian Frontiers Research Prize in 2010 (€ 50.000) for autonomous research by post-docs, with good results: 7 articles, 3 awards to me and 2 to my students, >20 media articles and a patented dengue virus inhibitor.
I started an “Investigador FCT” on January 2014, a 5 years’ principal investigator position (portable within Portugal) at IMM, Lisbon, Portugal, to work on protein-ligand interactions and amyloid-based detection. I obtained independent FCT funding (€ 144.010), supervised students, purchased equipment and organized workshops. I initiated 3 international collaborations and published 4 top articles (3 as senior author), leading to the Hans Neurath Outstanding Promise Award in 2015 (becoming a Protein Society Honorary Member). Moreover, in 2015, my students received 4 prizes and gave 3 oral presentations. In 2016 I was selected for the intensive 6 months COHiTEC Program, focused on translating lab data into business, via a technology originally conceived by me to beat current biomolecules detection limits. The outcome was a business plan that led to DART Diagnostics, a startup company based on the technology, co-funded by myself and two PhD students of my team, financed by venture capital, that aims at earlier disease detection, saving money, time and, most importantly, people lives..
AWARDS & GRANTS
Personal Awards
2017 COHiTEC & Caixa Capital Empreender 2016 Award, COHiTEC, COTEC Portugal.
2015: Hans Neurath Outstanding Promise Award, Hans Neurath Foundation.
2015: International Travel Award, Protein Society, Barcelona, Spain.
2012: Young Scientists 2012 Program Bursary, Fed. Eur. Bioch. Societies (FEBS), Sevilla, Spain.
2011: International Travel Award, Biophysical Society (BPS), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
2010: Prize Life Sciences Frontiers Research, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG), Lisbon, Portugal.
2008: Travel fellowship to Biophysics 2008 congress, Eur. Bioph. Soc. Assoc. (EBSA), Lisbon, Portugal.
2006: Travel fellowship to Protein Society Meeting, Boston, Massachussets, USA.
2001: Prize for the highest academic performance of the year, UCP, Porto, Portugal.
2000: Prize for the highest academic performance of the year, UCP, Porto, Portugal.
1998: 1st Prize of X European Union (EU) Young Scientists Contest at national level, Porto, Portugal.
Personal Grants
2014: FCT Investigator, Science & Technology Foundation (FCT), Portugal (IF/00772/2013).
2011: Post-doctoral grant, Science & Technology Foundation (FCT), Portugal (SFRH/BPD/74287/2010).
2009: Post-doctoral contract (IOF Marie Curie Fellow), FP7 program, European Union (MC-IOF 237373).
2009: Post-doctoral grant, Science & Technology Foundation (FCT), Portugal (SFRH/BPD/46324/2008).
2006: Doctoral grant, Science & Technology Foundation (FCT), Portugal (SFRH/BD/27293/2006).
2004: Doctoral grant, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), Germany.
2004: Pre-doctoral contract, Switch Laboratory, Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium.
2003: Trainee grant, Serrano lab, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
2002: Trainee grant, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC-UP), Porto, Portugal.
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