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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Daniel José Formica Pestana

Citation names

  • Pestana, Daniel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8110-3E59-7DAE
ORCID iD
0009-0001-9530-6349

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/01/01 - 2028
Ongoing
 Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2017 - 2020
Concluded
 Oncobiologia - Mecanismos Moleculares do Cancro (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
"Epigenetic Hotspots in cancer" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2014 - 2017
Concluded
 Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
"Polioxometalatos com atividade antibacteriana – Estudo de inibição da ca2+-ATPase do retículo sarcoplasmático por polioxometalato de vanádio (PV14)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 16
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Cardoso, Candida; Pestana, Daniel; Ramalhete, S.; Mestre, A.; Marreiros, A.; Castelo-Branco, P.; Fernandes, M.. "Identification of DNA Methylation-based Prognostic Biomarkers in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients with a Normal Karyotype". Paper presented in Revista Portuguesa de Farmacoterapia, 2020.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Pestana, Daniel; Cardoso, Candida; Ramos, Mónica; Rajado, Ana Teresa; Silva, Nádia; Apolónio, Joana ; Nóbrega, Clévio David Rodrigues ; Justin O'Sullivan; Pedro Castelo-Branco. Corresponding author: Pestana, Daniel. "Ageing Well in Algarve: A Clinical, Molecular and Geospatial integrative analysis into Elderly Health and fitness". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2025, 2025.
  2. Cardoso, Candida; Pestana, Daniel; Apolónio, Joana ; Silva, Nádia; Nunes, Nuno Miguel; Tabori, Uri; Pedro Castelo-Branco. Corresponding author: Cardoso, Candida. "THOR Methylation signatures in liquid biopsies for early breast cancer detection". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2025, 2025.
  3. Cardoso, Candida; Pestana, Daniel; Apolónio, Joana ; Nunes, Nuno Miguel; Tabori, Uri; Pedro Castelo-Branco. "THOR Methylation signatures in liquid biopsies for early breast cancer detection". Paper presented in Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), 2025.
  4. Cardoso, Candida; Pestana, Daniel; Apolónio, Joana ; Silva, Nádia; Nunes, Nuno Miguel; Komosa, Martin; Tabori, Uri; Pedro Castelo-Branco. Corresponding author: Cardoso, Candida. "THOR: Tert Hypermethylated Oncologic Region- a novel breast cancer biomarker for liquid biopsy". Paper presented in 6th ASPIC International Congress, 2024.
  5. Rajado, Ana Teresa; Pestana, Daniel; Silva, Nádia; Apolónio, Joana ; Esteves, Filipa; Brito, David V.C.; Trindade, Marlene; et al. "Algarve fit ageing score project, a multidisciplinary approach to assess healthy ageing status.". Paper presented in EMBO Workshop "Systems biology: Linking chromatin and epigenetics to disease and development, 2023.
  6. Pestana, Daniel; J. Walsh, C.; Costa, B.; C. Liaw, P.; Dwivedi, D.; L.Y. Tsang, J.; Castelo-Branco, P.; C. dos Santos, C.; Binnie, A.. "DNA Methylation signatures as potential prognostic biomarker in critical illness". Paper presented in ESICM 34th Annual Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark., 2021.
  7. Cardoso, Candida; Pestana, Daniel; Ramalhete, S.; Mestre, A; Marreiros, A; Castelo-Branco, P; Fernandes, M.. "Identificação de Biomarcadores de Metilação de ADN para Prognóstico em Doentes com Leucemia Mielóde Aguda Apresentando Citogenética Normal". Paper presented in XIV Congresso Mundial Dos Farmacêuticos De Língua Portuguesa, 2020.
  8. Pestana, Daniel; Cardoso, Candida; Mestre, A; Ramalhete, S; Castelo-Branco, P.. "Epi-Hotspots in cancer initiation". Paper presented in III Jornadas ABC, 2019.
  9. Cardoso, Candida; Pestana, Daniel; Ramalhete, S.; Mestre, A.; Marreiros, A; Fernandes, M.; Castelo-Branco, P.. "Prognostic Markers in intermediate patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia". Paper presented in III Jornadas ABC, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Pestana, Daniel; Joshi, Divya; Duan, Erick; Fowler, Robert; Tsang, Jennifer; Binnie, Alexandra. "The burden of COVID-19 care in community and academic intensive care units in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study". Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie [Q1] (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-024-02894-z.
    Published • 10.1007/s12630-024-02894-z
  2. Cândida Cardoso; Pestana, Daniel; Sreemol Gokuladhas; Ana D. Marreiros; Justin O'Sullivan; Alexandra Binnie; Mónica T. Fernandes; Castelo-Branco, P. "Identification of Novel DNA Methylation Prognostic Biomarkers for AML With Normal Cytogenetics". JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics [Q1] (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/cci.23.00265.
    Published • 10.1200/cci.23.00265
  3. Pestana, Daniel; Moura, Kyra; Moura, Claire; Mouliakis, Taylor; D’Aragon, Frédérick; Tsang, Jennifer L. Y.; Binnie, Alexandra. "The impact of COVID-19 workload on psychological distress amongst Canadian intensive care unit healthcare workers during the 1st wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal cohort study". PLOS ONE [Q1] 19 3 (2024): e0290749. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290749.
    Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0290749
  4. Sharma-Oates, Archana; Sullivan, Jack; Pestana, Daniel; dos Santos, Claudia C.; Binnie, Alexandra; Lord, Janet M.. "Association of Epigenetic Age and Outcome in Critically Ill Patients". Critical Care Explorations [Q1] 6 2 (2024): e1044. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/cce.0000000000001044.
    Published • 10.1097/cce.0000000000001044

Other

Software
  1. Pestana, Daniel; Cardoso, Candida; Pedro Castelo-Branco. "SurvIntersectR: Tools for Detecting Survival Curve Intersections". v0.1.0. 2024.
    10.5281/zenodo.11206042