Francisco Abreu dos Santos (2414-C825-7EFE)

Curriculum Vitae

Francisco Abreu dos Santos

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Francisco Abreu dos Santos

Citation names

Santos, Francisco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2414-C825-7EFE
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4700-0476

Email addresses

fra.santos@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Polymer Science
Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology - Nano-materials
Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering
Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology - Fermentation

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English (Mother tongue)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/10/07 - 2025/10/13	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
	Politechnika Warszawska Centrum Zaawansowanych Materialów i Technologii, Poland
2023/02/14 - 2024/09/30	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/02/14 - 2024/09/30	AgriLoop: Pushing the frontier of circular agriculture by converting residues into novel economic, social and environmental opportunities 101081776 Research Fellow Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal	Ongoing
2022/03 - 2022/12	CartHeal - Cartilages for hip prosthesis with controlled drug release ability PTDC/CTM-CTM/29593/2017 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química Estrutural, Portugal	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/10/01 - 2025/12/31	Institute for Health and Bioeconomy LA/P/0140/2020 10.54499/LA/P/0140/2020 PhD Student Fellow Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2024/10/01 - 2024/12/31	Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit UIDP/04378/2020 10.54499/UIDP/04378/2020 PhD Student Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Unidade de Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas, Portugal Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster

Cristiana A. V. Torres; Santos, Francisco; Freitas, Filomena; Reis, Maria. Corresponding author: Cristiana A. V. Torres. "Valorization of Tomato Pomace and Brewer’s Spent Grain for Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)". Paper presented in Microbiotec’25 - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2025, 2025.
Santos, Francisco; Araújo, Diana; Concórdio-Reis, Patrícia; Vieira, Tânia; Silva, Jorge Carvalho; Freitas, Filomena. Corresponding author: Concórdio-Reis, Patrícia. "Development of a Multifunctional Hydrogel Based on Natural Polysaccharides for Diabetic Wound Healing". Paper presented in 12th European Symposium on Biopolymers (ESBP 2025), 2025.
Santos, Francisco; Freitas, Filomena; Reis, Maria; Cristiana A. V. Torres. Corresponding author: Cristiana A. V. Torres. "Tomato Pomace and Brewer´S Spent Grain Oil for PHA Production". Paper presented in 12th European Symposium on Biopolymers (ESBP 2025), 2025.
Santos, Francisco; Torres, Cristiana Andreia Vieira; Duque, Anouk F.; Freitas, Filomena; Reis, Maria. "Oil extracted from tomato pomace as feedstock for sustainable PHA production". Paper presented in Second Symposium for Young Chemists: Innovation and Sustainability (SYNC 2024), 2024.
Santos, Francisco; Andreia Sofia Gonçalves de Oliveira; Célio Gabriel Figueiredo Pina; Ana Paula Valagão Amadeu do Serro. Corresponding author: Ana Paula Valagão Amadeu do Serro. "Tribomechanical behaviour of gamma-irradiated Nomex® reinforced poly(vinyl alcohol)-based hydrogels for articular cartilage replacement". Paper presented in IBERTRIB 2022 - 11th Iberian Conference on Tribology, 2022.
Maciel, Dina; Santos, Francisco; Muñoz-Fernández, Maria Ángeles; Tomás, Helena; Rodrigues, João. "Anticancer activity of ruthenium-based metallodendrimers: a hopeful metallodrug against cancer". Paper presented in 2nd International Workshop on Advanced Materials for Healthcare Applications, 2019.
Maciel, Dina; Santos, Francisco; Muñoz-Fernández, Maria Ángeles; Tomás, Helena; Rodrigues, João. "Ruthenium-based metallodendrimers: synthesis, cytotoxicity and hematotoxicity studies". Paper presented in IDS11 - 11th International Dendrimer Symposium, 2019.
Santos, Francisco; Maciel, Dina; Rodrigues, João. Corresponding author: Rodrigues, João. "Synthesis and Characterization of Low Generation of Sulfonated and Carboxylated Poly(Alkylidenamine) Dendrimers". Paper presented in IDS11 - 11th International Dendrimer Symposium, 2019.
Santos, Francisco; Maciel, Dina; João Rodrigues. Corresponding author: João Rodrigues. "Copper (II) complexes formed in the presence of low generation poly(alkylidenamine) dendrimers: a UV-Vis study". Paper presented in MAD-Nano18 - Madeira International Conference on Emerging Trends and Future of Nanomaterials for Human Health, 2018.

Journal article

Diana Araújo; Francisco Santos; Rui Igreja; Filomena Freitas. "Solid Microneedles from Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate): A Solvent-Free, Biodegradable Platform for Drug Delivery". Pharmaceutics (2026): https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics18010139.
10.3390/pharmaceutics18010139
Francisco Santos; Carolina Marto-Costa; Ana Catarina Branco; Andreia Sofia Oliveira; Rui Galhano dos Santos; Madalena Salema-Oom; Roberto Leonardo Diaz; et al. "Tribomechanical Properties of PVA/Nomex® Composite Hydrogels for Articular Cartilage Repair". Gels (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/gels10080514.
10.3390/gels10080514
Maciel, Dina; Nunes, Nádia ; Santos, Francisco; Yu Fan; Gaoming Li; Mingwu Shen; Tomás, Helena; Xiangyang Shi; João Rodrigues. Corresponding author: João Rodrigues. "New insights on ruthenium(II) metallodendrimers as anticancer drug nanocarriers: from synthesis to preclinic behaviour". Journal of Materials Chemistry B 10 43 (2022): 8945-8959. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2tb01280d.
Published • 10.1039/d2tb01280d

Activities

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/10/07 - 2025/10/13	Short research stay within my PhD work, funded by the EU project EMERGE (101008701), focused on assessing Aerosol Jet Printing for the fabrication of conductive coatings on biopolymer-based structures for sensing applications. Other	Politechnika Warszawska Centrum Zaawansowanych Materialów i Technologii, Poland

Distinctions

Other distinction

2021	Award for Academic Excelence Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2020	Merit Diploma Universidade da Madeira, Portugal