Patrícia Gomes-Alves

Patrícia Gomes-Alves is a lab Head at the Animal Cell Technology Unit of iBET’s Health & Pharma Division since 2018. In 2009 P Gomes-Alves finished her PhD in Biology from ITQB-NOVA, in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, developing research in the area of proteomics/Mass spectrometry tools and biomarker discovery in Cystic Fibrosis. She did part of her PhD studies at C Boyd’s Lab, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh (UK), and JP Albar’s Lab, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). In May 2010 she joined a biotechnology SME, TheraProteins, to work as Director of Development, being in charge for the development of biotechnological products, namely oligosaccharide reference standards. In 2011 she joined the Animal Cell Technology Unit @iBET as a Senior Scientist at the Cell Bioprocesses Lab, and in 2013 took over the scientific coordination of the Mass Spectrometry Unit (UniMS) at iBET/ITQB-NOVA. Dr. Gomes-Alves research interests cover the areas of bioprocessing, -omics tools and mass spectrometry (MS). Her projects have focused the development and implementation of MS-based workflows to characterize bioprocesses and resulting cell products. Dr. Gomes-Alves authored 48 manuscripts, 2 book chapters receiving a total of 622 citations (h-index 14), was also responsible for the supervision of 2 PhD students (theses defended in 2018 and 2022), 5 MSc students (4 theses defended), and participated in several publicly funded research projects (FCT and EC) and coordinated several R&D services with the biopharma industry.