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Inês Costa graduated from the University of Algarve's Faculty of Science and Technology with a Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences (MICF) in 2019. She is currently a PhD student in Chemistry (Organic and Medicinal Chemistry) working under the supervision of Prof. Maria de Lurdes Cristiano (University of Algarve) and Prof. Philippe Loiseau (University of Paris Saclay) with the following theme: "Repurposing antimalarial chemotypes: Synthesis of endoperoxide-miltefosine hybrids and evaluation of their potential as new antileishmanial drugs."
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Inês Costa
Date of birth
1996/11/23
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Costa, Inês C. C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
061F-2BC6-1310

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 917312886 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/01/02 - 2025
Ongoing
Chemistry (Doutoramento)
Major in Organic and Medicinal Chemestry
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
"Repurposing antimalarial chemotypes: Synthesis of endoperoxide-miltefosine hybrids and evaluation of their potential as new antileishmanial drugs. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/17
Concluded
Advances in Neuropharmaceutics (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
18
2021/09/20 - 2021/09/24
Concluded
Practical course SPCAL Category B of Laboratory Animal Sciences - 4th Edition (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
18
2021/04/27
Concluded
Theoretical course SPCAL Category B of Laboratory Animal Sciences - 4th Edition (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
90%
2021/04/11
Concluded
COVID-19 theoretical course: Harvesting techniques, testing methods and protective measures (Outros)
NAU/ University of Algarve, Portugal
2014 - 2019/11/11
Concluded
Integrated Master's in Pharmaceutical Sciences (MICF) (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
""Síntese de trioxolanos e tetraoxanos com potencial atividade contra Toxoplasma gondii" " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
16
2017
Concluded
Course of Basic Life Support (Outros)
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/01/17 - 2020/12/31 Pharmacist Farmácia Central, Portugal
Farmácia Central, Portugal
2019/05/02 - 2019/08/14 Curricular Internship in Community Pharmacy Farmácia Sousa, Portugal
Farmácia Sousa, Portugal
2019/03/04 - 2019/04/30 Curricular Internship in Hospital Pharmacy Hospital CUF Porto, Portugal
Hospital CUF Porto, Portugal
2018/08/27 - 2018/09/07 SEP (Student Exchange Programme) Pharmacy Gradska Ljerkana Zagreb, Croatia
Pharmacy Gradska Ljerkana Zagreb, Croatia
2017/07/13 - 2017/08/13 Extracurricular Internship in Hospital Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
2015/07/15 - 2015/07/23 Extracurricular Internship in Community Pharmacy Farmácia Dulce Caçador, Portugal
Farmácia Dulce Caçador, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/02 - Current Repurposing antimalarial chemotypes: Synthesis of endoperoxide-miltefosine hybrids and evaluation of their potential as new antileishmanial drugs."
2020.08242.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Université Paris-Saclay, France
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Costa, Inês C. C.; Augusto, André F.; Margarida, Alves M.; Guedes, Rita C.; Paixão, José A; Cristiano, Maria L. S.. "Amplifying the library of thio-linked pyrimidine-based conjugates". Paper presented in 15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting, 2024.
  2. Costa, Inês C. C.; Amado, Patrícia S. M.; Paixão, José A.; Mendes, Ricardo F.; Cândido, Ana; Duarte, Denise; Cortes, Sofia; Nogueira, Fátima; Cristiano, Maria L. S.. Corresponding author: Cristiano, Maria L. S.. "Endoperoxide-pyrazole hybrids: synthesis, structure and antiparasitic properties". Paper presented in National Meeting of SPQ, 2023.
  3. Costa, Inês C. C.; Amado, Patrícia S. M.; Paixão, José A.; Mendes, Ricardo F.; Cândido, Ana; Duarte, Denise; Cortes, Sofia; Nogueira, Fátima; Cristiano, Maria L. S.. "Synthesis, Structure and Antiparasitic Evaluation of Endoperoxide: Pyrazole Hybrids". Paper presented in X Congresso Iberoamericano de Ciências Farmacêuticas, 2023.
  4. Costa, Inês C. C.; Amado, Patrícia S. M.; Paixão, José A.; Mendes, Ricardo F.; Cortes, Sofia; Cristiano, Maria L. S.. Corresponding author: Cristiano, Maria L. S.. "Synthesis, structure and antileishmanial evaluation of endoperoxide-pyrazole hybrids". Paper presented in 14th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 7th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting, 2022.
  5. "Costa, Inês. "Synthesis and structure of endoperoxide-pyrazole hybrids with potential antiparasitic action". Work presented at Encontro Anual de Doutorandos Da Universidade do Algarve, 2021.". 2021.
Journal article
  1. Frija, Luís M. T.; Guerreiro, Bruno E. C.; Costa, Inês C. C.; Isca, Vera M. S.; Saraiva, Lucília; Neves, Beatriz G.; Magalhães, Mariana; et al. "Hybrid azole-based conjugates as upcoming anticancer and antimicrobial agents". Exploration of Drug Science (2023): 420-434. http://dx.doi.org/10.37349/eds.2023.00028.
    10.37349/eds.2023.00028
  2. Amado, Patrícia S. M.; Costa, Inês C. C.; Paixão, José A.; Mendes, Ricardo F.; Cortes, Sofia; Cristiano, Maria L. S.. "Synthesis, Structure and Antileishmanial Evaluation of Endoperoxide-Pyrazole Hybrids". Molecules 27 17 (2022): 5401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules27175401.
    10.3390/molecules27175401
  3. Secrieru, Alina; Costa, Inês C. C.; O'Neill, Paul M.; Cristiano, Maria L. S.. "Antimalarial Agents as Therapeutic Tools Against Toxoplasmosis: A Short Bridge between Two Distant Illnesses". Molecules 25 7 (2020): 1574. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25071574.
    10.3390/molecules25071574
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/23 Flash Communication: "Amplifying the library of thio-linked pyrimidine-based conjugates" 15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
2022/04/21 Flash communication: Synthesis, structure and antileishmanial evaluation of endoperoxide-pyrazole hybrids 14th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 7th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
2018/11/22 "Reversing the pathophysiology of Perkinsosis in clams hatcheries through the use of analogues of Artemisinin" “Ciência Imperial Orgmedchem”
Centro Ciência Viva Do Algarve: Semana C&T 2018 (Faro, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022 Student co-supervision activity | Discipline "Project of Student Choice Module I" of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine
Co-supervisor

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2018/02/15 - 2018/02/22 Class teatcher "Atividade antibacteriana do óleo essencial Origanum vulgare" to students participating in the Open Day of the University of Algarve (2019/02/22 - 2019/02/22)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
Núcleo de Estudantes de Ciências Farmacêuticas (NECiFarm) - Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/01/22 - 2024/01/24 15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
Congress
15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
2023/10/26 - 2023/10/28 X Congresso Iberoamericano de Ciências Farmacêuticas
Congress
X Congresso Iberoamericano de Ciências Farmacêuticas
2023/07/24 - 2023/07/26 XVIII Meeting of SPQ
Congress
XVIII Meeting of SPQ
2022/04/20 - 2022/04/22 14th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 7th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
Congress
14th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 7th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting
2021/11/29 - 2021/11/29 Oral drug delivery using nanocomposite to increase intestinal residence time
Seminar
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2021/09/13 - 2021/09/18 EUROPIN Summer School on Drug: The summer school especially focuses on students and professionals who have a clear interest in learning the basics as well as latest developments in Pharmacoinformatics. The program provides an overview on main approaches and techniques used in computational drug design, ranging from protein modeling, docking, pharmacophore based screening, up to machine learning, data science, and workflows.
Seminar
EUROPIN Summer School on Drug Design
2021/05/19 - 2021/05/21 Conference 7th portuguese young chemists meeting
Meeting
Conference 7th portuguese young chemists
Sociedade Portuguesa da Química, Portugal
2017/07/03 - 2017/08/13 Volunteer in project "I cancer vive"
Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine, Egypt

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Ualg doctoral college Faculty of sciences and technologies’ representative student at the doctoral college| University of Algarve
2017 - 2019 Nucleus of Pharmaceutical Sciences Students, University of algarve (NECiFarm) Member of the Training Department
2017/10/21 - 2018/10/13 Youth Science Association (AJC) Member of the Assembly Board

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2024/01/22 - 2024/01/24 Organizing Committee of the "15th National Organic Chemistry Meeting & 8th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting"
Member
Distinctions

Award

2020 Lusitanian Pharmaceutical Society Award of the Order of Pharmacists: Pharmacists' order MICF's best student at University of Algarve in 2019
Ordem dos Farmaceuticos, Portugal