Ana Catarina da Silva Damas Pinto

SBMG
Soft and biofunctional materials group
Junior Researcher
1.1 - CEA 240 Ed.I 10569
ac.pinto@fct.unl.pt

Description

Ana Catarina Pinto has a Doctorate in Biochemical Engineering at the University College London (UCL), funded by an individual FCT grant, where a scaled-down model of the pH effects on CHO-CY01 cell line growth and monoclonal antibody production was developed. At the same time, she worked three academic years in a part-time teaching post at UCL Biochemical Engineering and six months as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath Chemical Engineering Department. Then, she was a postdoctoral fellow at 3Bs research group working to develop a first of its kind bi-compartmentalised hydrogel-based co-culture system for production of bioartificial microliver construct and validation of a novel high-content screening tool for drug-induced hepatotoxicity (Microliver project). Next, she was involved in developing a multiparametric high-throughput methodology to screen Human adipose-derived stem cell responses in different hydrogels (methacrylate polysaccharides) blends (ComplexiTE project). Currently, she is a junior researcher at the GREAT lab, Soft and Biofunctional Materials Group (SBMG) at i3N/CENIMAT group where a new artificial neuronal conduit is being developed with blends of conductive and biodegradable polymers. Her main research focus is on biomaterials and cell-based therapies for Biomedical Engineering and, Tissue Regeneration.




Main publications

Pinto, A. C., 2019. Biofabrication. Invited lecture at Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) for Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics Master students on the Tissue Engineering and Artificial Organs module, Lisboa, Portugal (Oral Presentation)


Pinto, A. C., 2019. Biofabrication – Debate Are we neglecting the cell part in biofabrication? Biomedical Engineering Summit I (ANEEB), Lisboa, Portugal (Oral Presentation)


Guimarães, C.F., Gasperini, L., Ribeiro, R.S., Pinto, A.C., Carvalho, A.F., Marques, A.P., Reis, R.L. 2019. Microfluidic fabrication of 3D biomaterial libraries for high-throughput screening stem cell responses. Termis EU 2019, Rhoedes, Greece (Oral Presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Guimarães, C.F., da Silva, L. P., Canadas, R. F., Oliveira, J. M., Marques, A. P., Reis, R. L. 2018. Multiparametric high-throughput methodology to screen Human adipose-derived stem cell response in different hydrogels blends. Chem2Nature final conference and Gene2Skin final conference 2018, Guimarães, Portugal (Poster presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Guimarães, C.F., da Silva, L. P., Canadas, R. F., Oliveira, J. M., Marques, A. P., Reis, R. L. 2018. Gellan Gum-Based Blends for a Multiparametric Analysis of Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Response. Summer School Chem2Nature and Summer School Gene2Skin Summer School 2018, Porto , Portugal (Poster presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Bishi, D. K., Marques, A. P., Reis, R. L. 2017. Human Liver Cancer Cells encapsulated in Alginate/Collagen/Chitosan microbeads: Effects of Cell-Seeding Density on Hepatocyte Viability, Morphology, and Function. 2017 Gene2Skin Winter School, TermStem 2017 and Forecast 2017 Conferences, Porto, Portugal (Poster presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Bishi, D. K., Marques, A. P., Reis, R. L. 2017. 3D Co-Culture of Human Liver Cancer Cells and Human Umbilical Endothelial Cells as an In Vitro Model to Predict Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity. 2017 Gene2Skin Winter School, TermStem 2017 and Forecast 2017 Conferences, Porto, Portugal (Poster presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Bishi, D. K., Marques, A. P., Reis, R. L. 2017. HepG2 Spheroids as an In Vitro Model to Predict Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity, Chem2Nature Second School, Porto, Portugal (Poster presentation)


Bishi, D. K., Gasperini, Pinto, A. C., Mano, J. F., Marques, A. P., Reis, R. L. 2016. Development of a Janus droplet generator device for hepatocyte-endothelial cell co-culture application, Chem2Nature First School, Guimarães, Portugal (poster presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Smales, C. M., Baganz, F. 2016. The Role of Carbon Dioxide in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cell Kinetics. European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Sciences (ESBES) 2016, Dublin, Ireland (Oral Presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Smales, C. M., Baganz, F. 2016. The Role of Carbon Dioxide in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cell Kinetics. Cell Culture 2016, London, United Kingdom (Oral Presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Smales, C. M., Baganz, F. 2013. Investigation of the Effect of pH on CHO Cell Growth and IgG4 Production at Different Scales. 10th Annual bioProcessUK Conference, London, United Kingdom. (Poster presentation)


Pinto, A. C., Smales, C. M., Baganz, F. 2013. Investigation of the Effect of pH on CHO Cell Growth and IgG4 Production at Different Scales. 23rd ESACT Meeting, Lille, France. (poster presentation)


Grant, C., Pinto, A. C., Lui, H. P., Woodley, J. M., Baganz, F. 2012. Tools for Characterizing the Whole-cell Bio-oxidation of Alkanes at Microscale. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 109 (9): 2179–2189


 




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