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Ricardo Monteiro is a PhD student in the Host-Parasite Interactions group, supervised by Doctor Joana Tavares. He earned a Master’s Degree in Pharmacy from the School of Health of Polytechnic Institute of Porto where he graduated in 2020. Ricardo's passion for scientific research began in his second year of the Master’s, where he went to the Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology lab of University of Bologna. There, he led his project investigating the effects of resveratrol on the regulation of transcription factors REST and FoxO3 in medulloblastoma cells. After graduation, Ricardo worked as a research fellow in the Parasite Disease group at Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, contributing to multiple projects. In 2021, he participated in a project aimed at uncovering new derivatives of miltefosine for Leishmaniasis and Spleeping Sickness, under supervision of Doctor Nuno Santarém. He began his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in late 2021, focusing on the characterization of the cellular and antibody response to COVID-19 vaccines in immunocompromised individuals. Ricardo has contributed for 1 research article and about 6 communications for national and international conferences. He has attended several specialized meetings and conferences on immunology, virology and infectious diseases. Additionally, he co-supervised 1 undergraduate student and he is Invited Assistant at the School of Health of Polytechnic Institute of Porto.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ricardo Paulo Senra Monteiro

Citation names

  • Monteiro, Ricardo
  • Ricardo Monteiro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4E18-5891-5F6E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-0059-5310
Scopus Author Id
57222069659

Email addresses

  • ricardopsm@i3s.up.pt (Professional)
  • ricardopsm97@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 933873782 (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Virology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Parasitology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/11 - 2025/11
Ongoing
 Ciências Farmacêuticas (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/06
Concluded
 Conceção de Atividades/UC em E/B-learning (6 ECTS) (Outros)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Unidade de e-Learning e Inovação Pedagógica, Portugal
 19/20
2024/01/09 - 2024/03/22
Concluded
 HMX Pro Immunology - Vaccines and Viral Immunology (Outros)
Harvard Medical School, United States
 97%
2023/02 - 2023/07
Concluded
 Plataforma Moodle (6 ECTS) (Outros)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Unidade de e-Learning e Inovação Pedagógica, Portugal
 18/20
2021/04 - 2021/10
Concluded
 Laboratory Animal Science Course (Functions A and D - mice and rats) (Outros)
Direcção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
Approved
2021 - 2021
Concluded
 Biolaboratório - Projeto de Experimentação Multidisciplinar (6 ECTS) (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
19/20
2020 - 2020
Concluded
 Investigador Clínico - Nível 2 (Outros)
Major in Investigador Principal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Associação para a Formação Profissional e Investigação, Portugal
91%
2018 - 2020
Concluded
 Farmácia (Mestrado)
Major in Tecnologia do Medicamento e de Produtos de Saúde
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal

Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Italy
"FOXO3-REST AXIS: A THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR MEDULLOBLASTOMA?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17/20
2018 - 2018
Concluded
 Investigador Clínico - Nível 1 (Outros)
Major in Co-investigador médico e staff do centro de estudo
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Associação para a Formação Profissional e Investigação, Portugal
92%
2015 - 2018
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura)
Major in Biomedicina Farmacêutica
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 16/20
2012 - 2015
Concluded
 Ciências e Tecnologias (Ensino secundário)
Escola Básica e Secundária Vale do Tamel, Portugal
 18/20
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/10 - 2025/01 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2023/10/09 - 2024/01/13 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2022/10/10 - 2023/06/09 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2021/10/14 - 2022/06/25 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/11/01 - Current COVID-19 vaccination in immunocompromised individuals
2021.09486.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2021/10/31 Pre-clinical evaluation of miltefosine derivatives optimized for treatment of Leishmaniasis and Sleeping Sickness
PTDC/SAU-PAR/31013/2017
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/07 - 2020/12 Combining serology and virus specific cytokine profiling for evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 exposure
nº 460/ RESEARCH4COVID-19
Technical development
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/07 - 2020/10 Summer School - Interdisciplinary approaches to control infectious diseases and cancer
Special Support "Summer with Science"
Master Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Ricardo Monteiro; Manuela Bustorff; Begoña Pérez-Cabezas; Santarém, Nuno; Cordeiro-da-Silva, Anabela; Tavares, Joana. Corresponding author: Tavares, Joana. "Kidney transplant recipients present impaired SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular and antibody responses upon COVID-19". Paper presented in I Congress BioMedLab, Porto, 2023.
    Published
  2. Monteiro, Ricardo. "FOXO3-REST Axis: a Therapeutic Target for Medulloblastoma?". Paper presented in 15th Young European Scientist Meeting, Porto, 2021.
    Published • 10.1097/j.pbj.0000000000000100
Conference poster
  1. Ricardo Monteiro; Manuela Bustorff; Begoña Pérez-Cabezas; Santarém, Nuno; Cordeiro-da-Silva, Anabela; Tavares, Joana. "Vaccination increases IFN-gamma mediated immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in Solid Organ Transplant recipients with previous history of COVID-19". Paper presented in 13th EMBO Young Scientists' Forum, 2023.
  2. Ricardo Monteiro; Joana Rodrigues; Santarém, Nuno; Cordeiro-da-Silva, Anabela; Tavares, Joana. Corresponding author: Tavares, Joana. "Understanding organ tropism in Leishmania infantum infection". Paper presented in 6th PhDay "Brilliant PhDs, Brighter future: Shaping Science Together", 2023.
  3. Ricardo Monteiro; Manuela Bustorff; Begoña Pérez-Cabezas; Santarém, Nuno; Cordeiro-da-Silva, Anabela; Tavares, Joana. Corresponding author: Tavares, Joana. "Kidney transplant recipients present impaired SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular and antibody responses upon COVID-19". Paper presented in I ImmunoHUB Annual Meeting - Infection & Immunity, 2023.
  4. Ricardo Monteiro; Manuela Bustorff; Begoña Pérez-Cabezas; Santarém, Nuno; Cordeiro-da-Silva, Anabela; Tavares, Joana. Corresponding author: Tavares, Joana. "Kidney transplant recipients present impaired SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular and humoral responses upon COVID-19". Paper presented in Microbiology Laboratory Day of FFUP, 2022.
  5. Ricardo Monteiro; Manuela Bustorff; Begoña Pérez-Cabezas; Santarém, Nuno; Cordeiro-da-Silva, Anabela; Tavares, Joana. Corresponding author: Tavares, Joana. "Solid Organ Transplanted recipients present impaired SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular and humoral responses upon COVID-19". Paper presented in 5th PhDay - "Building Paths: The Science Behind Us", 2022.
  6. Monteiro, Ricardo; Manuela Bustorff; Begoña Pérez-Cabezas; Santarém, Nuno; Cordeiro-da-Silva, Anabela; Tavares, Joana. Corresponding author: Tavares, Joana. "Solid Organ Transplanted individuals present impaired SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular and humoral responses upon COVID-19". Paper presented in XLVII SPI Annual Meeting 2022, 2022.
Journal article
  1. Ana Isabel Pinto; Cátia Caldas; Nuno Santarém; Sara Luelmo; Inês Costa; Carlos Martins; Ricardo Monteiro; et al. ""Leishmania and HIV co-infection: first naturally Leishmania strain presenting decreased susceptibility to Miltefosine, recovered from a patient in Portugal."". Journal of Infection and Public Health (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2024.03.008.
    10.1016/j.jiph.2024.03.008
Preprint
  1. Begoña Pérez-Cabezas; Ricardo Ribeiro; Costa, Inês; Esteves, Sofia; Ana Rafaela Teixeira; Teresa Reis; Monteiro, Ricardo; et al. "IL-2 and IFN-gamma are biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular response in whole blood stimulation assays". 2021. http://europepmc.org/abstract/PPR/PPR263093.
    10.1101/2021.01.04.20248897
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Monteiro, Ricardo Paulo Senra. "FoxO3-REST Axis: a Therapeutic Target for Medulloblastoma?". Master, Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/16473.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/11/12 Vaccination increases IFN-gamma mediated immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in Solid Organ Transplant recipients with previous history of COVID-19 Microbiology Laboratory Day
Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/12/06 Kidney transplant recipients present decreased SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular and antibody responses upon COVID-19 Immune Crosstalk - ImmunoHUB
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
2023/10/04 Poster Pitch Session - Understanding organ tropism in Leishmania infantum infection 6th PhDay "Brilliant PhDs, Brighter future: Shaping Science Together"
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal (Porto, Portugal)
2023/03/11 Kidney transplant recipients present impaired SARS-CoV-2 specific cellular and antibody responses upon COVID-19 I Congress BioMedLab
Associação Portuguesa de Ciências Biomédicas Laboratoriais (Porto, Portugal)
2021/11/05 FoxO3-REST Axis: a Therapeutic Target for Medulloblastoma? 8th Scientific Meeting of Pharmacy
Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2020/09 FoxO3-REST Axis: a Therapeutic Target for Medulloblastoma? 15th Young European Scientist Meeting
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/01 - 2024/07/26 Engineering a dual- reporter line to understand tissue tropism in Leishmania infantum infection
Co-supervisor of Carolina Pinto Faria
 Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/11/06 - 2020/11/06 7th Scientific Meeting of Pharmacy (2020/11/06 - 2020/11/06)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/11/12 - 2024/11/12 Microbiology Laboratory Day of FFUP
Meeting
 Microbiology Laboratory Day
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2024/05/14 - 2024/05/15 Environmentally friendly systems to replace classical animal models in drug testing for vector-borne diseases
Workshop
 Environmentally friendly systems to replace classical animal models in drug testing for vector-borne diseases
European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2024/04/18 - 2024/04/19 10th McBiology Symposium - A decade building Science
Symposium
 10th McBiology Symposium - A decade building Science
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/11/28 - 2023/11/28 Worshop "From mechanisms of infection and pathogenesis to vaccines development in malaria"
Workshop
 "From mechanisms of infection and pathogenesis to vaccines development in malaria"
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Université Paris-Saclay, France
2023/11/16 - 2023/11/17 10th i3S Annual Meeting
Meeting
 10th i3S Annual Meeting
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/10/12 - 2023/10/13 13th EMBO Young Scientists' Forum
Conference
 13th EMBO Young Scientists' Forum
Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Lebenswissenschaften Heidelberg GmbH, Germany

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2023/10/03 - 2023/10/04 6th PhDay "Brilliant PhDs, Brighter future: Shaping Science Together"
Meeting
 Brilliant PhDs, Brighter future: Shaping Science Together
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/09/17 - 2023/09/20 Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology "Vaccinology During and After COVID-19"
Symposium
 Vaccinology During and After COVID-19
Keystone Symposia, United States
2023/06/27 - 2023/06/27 X Biotech Health Annual Symposium: On the Shoulders of Giants
Symposium
 X Biotech Health Annual Symposium
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2023/04/03 - 2023/04/05 Webinar de Escrita Científica
Other
 Webinar de Escrita Científica
ReadyToPub, Portugal
2023/03/17 - 2023/03/17 I ImmunoHUB Annual Meeting - Infection & Immunity
Meeting
 I ImmunoHUB Annual Meeting
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/03/10 - 2023/03/12 I Congress BioMedLab
Congress
 I Congress BioMedLab
Associação Portuguesa de Ciências Biomédicas Laboratoriais, Portugal
2023/02/23 - 2023/02/24 9th McBiology Symposium - Science: everything, everywhere all at once
Symposium
 9th McBiology Symposium
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2022/10/27 - 2022/10/27 Microbiology Laboratory Day of FFUP
Meeting
 Microbiology Laboratory Day
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2022/10/03 - 2022/10/04 5th PhDay - "Building Paths: The Science Behind Us"
Meeting
 Building Paths: The Science Behind Us
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09 EpiViral Summer School - RNA viruses: interactions with hosts, vectors and cells
Other
 RNA viruses: interactions with hosts, vectors and cells
Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
2022/05/11 - 2022/05/11 Workshop "Non-human primate models to study infectious diseases and vaccines development"
Workshop
 Non-human primate models to study infectious diseases and vaccines development
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Université Paris-Saclay, France
2022/04/20 - 2022/04/22 XLVII SPI Annual Meeting 2022 - At the Crossroads of Human Immunology
Conference
 XLVII SPI Annual Meeting 2022
Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2022/03/17 - 2022/03/19 Online Course: Scientific tools in biological assays: principles of cell cultures and genetics
Workshop
 Scientific tools in biological assays: principles of cell cultures and genetics
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2022/03/04 - 2022/03/04 8th Molecular and Cell Biology Symposium - Let's have a moment of science!
Symposium
 8th McBiology Symposium
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2021/12/10 - 2021/12/10 SARS-CoV-2 - Two years on: Science Meets the Challenge
Conference
 SARS-CoV-2 - Two years on: Science Meets the Challenge
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
2021/11/03 - 2021/11/03 1st Porto One Health Day: a holistic view of health
Symposium
 1st Porto One Health Day
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/24 European Researchers' Night 2021: Bio-positive clothing - prototype of an eco-friendly slipper
Exhibition
 European Researchers' Night 2021
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2021/05/20 - 2021/05/21 XLVI Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Immunology - Current Challenges and Emerging Topics in Immunology
Conference
 XLVI SPI Annual Meeting 2021
Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2021/04/27 - 2021/04/27 International Open Conference - Emerging Infectious Diseases and related environmental, clinical and translational challenges
Conference
 Emerging Infectious Diseases and related environmental, clinical and translational challenges
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/10 Summer School - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Control Infectious Diseases and Cancer
Other
 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Control Infectious Diseases and Cancer
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2020/09/17 - 2020/09/20 15th Young European Scientist Meeting - Breaking Boundaries
Conference
 15th Young European Scientist Meeting
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2016 - 2018 Biomedical Sciences Students' Association of the University of Aveiro Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/10 - 2025/01 Biotechnological Pharmaceuticals (10 theoretical-practical + 10 practical hours) Farmácia (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2024/10 - 2024/10 Clinical Immunology (4 practical hours) Análises Clínicas (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2024/04/08 - 2024/04/12 Immunology (22 practical hours) Mestrado Integrado em Ciências Farmacêuticas (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/01 Biotechnological Pharmaceuticals (10 theoretical-practical + 10 practical hours) Farmácia (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/01 Biotechnological Pharmaceuticals (10 theoretical-practical + 10 practical hours) Inovação Tecnológica em Saúde (Pós-Graduação) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2022/10 - 2023/01 Biotechnological Pharmaceuticals (10 theoretical-practical + 10 practical hours) Farmácia (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2022/09 - 2022/09 Clinical Immunology (2 practical hours) Análises Clínicas (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/02 Biotechnological Pharmaceuticals (10 theoretical-practical + 10 practical hours) Farmácia (Mestrado) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2016 Sports Merit Scholarship
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal