Magda Santana

Magda M Santana (MMS) is interested in translational research in the field of Neurosciences and aging-related diseases. As undergraduate student, MMS was in the ranking of the 3% Best Students of Pharmaceutical Sciences. MMS finished her Integrated Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences, in 2008, at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Portugal. In the same year, MMS received a PhD fellowship from FCT to develop her PhD, under the supervision of Cláudia Cavadas and Monika Ehrhart-Bornstein. MMS got her Doctoral degree in Pharmacy (Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy) at University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2013. MMS has international scientific experience acquired as undergraduate student, being enrolled in the Erasmus Program (London University) and as PhD student (Dresden University, Germany). MMS has been participating in different scientific projects, being author or co-author of 10 scientific publications. Since 2013 until present, MMS is postdoctoral researcher at Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, being responsible for the development of pre-clinical studies, using both in vitro and in vivo models. MMS got financial support by two pharmaceutical companies (Aug 2013 – May 2014) and by a fellow under the project “Aging, Stress and Chronic Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapeutics”, supported by QREN - Mais Centro: Programa Operacional Regional do Centro (Jun 2014 – May 2015).