Maria Clara Ferreira de Almeida Cardia Gomes (1414-69CE-C610)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Clara Ferreira de Almeida Cardia Gomes

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Clara Ferreira de Almeida Cardia Gomes

Citation names

Gomes, Maria
Gomes, M. C.
Maria C. Gomes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 1414-69CE-C610
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3199-2535

Websites

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Polymer Science
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
Engineering and Technology - Nano-technology - Nano-materials
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Inorganic Chemistry
Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Technologies Involving the Manipulation of Cells, Tissues, Organs or the Whole Organism
Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013 - 2017/06/17 Concluded	Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Photoactive nanoparticles for optical bioimaging" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aproved
2016/01 - 2016/07 Concluded	Advanced Confocal Raman Microscopy couse (Outros) University Health Network, Canada
2016/06 - 2016/06 Concluded	Advanced Course in TEM for cell imaging (Outros) University Health Network, Canada
2016/05 - 2016/05 Concluded	ARC Mouse handling wet lab (Outros) University Health Network, Canada
2016/05 - 2016/05 Concluded	ARC Anesthesia Wet Lab (Outros) University Health Network, Canada
2014 - 2014 Concluded	Advanced Course in Photobiological Sciences (Curso médio) Major in Photobiology European Society of Photobiology, Italy
2009 - 2010 Concluded	Biology (Mestrado) Major in Clinical and Ambiental Microbiology Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal "Cationic galactoporphyrins on microoganisms photoinactivation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004 - 2009 Concluded	Biology (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/12/15 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2019/06/01 - 2019/12/14	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal

2017/10/04 - 2019	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal

2016/01 - 2016/07	Research Trainee (Research)	University Health Network, Canada
	University Health Network, Canada

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2018/07 - 2022/06	Hidrogéis de Lisados de Plaquetas para Regeneração do Miocárdio Provided by PTCRIS: PTDC/BTM-MAT/30869/2017	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013/02 - 2017/01	PHOTOACTIVE SILICA NANOPARTICLES FOR THERAPEUTICS AND BIO IMAGING Provided by PTCRIS: SFRH/BD/88334/2012	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/05/01 - Current	PRISM-LT - PRInted Symbiotic Materials as a dynamic platform for Living Tissues production 101070913 Researcher Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	European Innovation Council Ongoing
2021/03/28 - 2024/03/27	Bioinspired tile-matching to create ultrastructured bone microtissues in a close-to-native fashion PTDC/BTM-MAT/3201/2020 Researcher Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/07/22 - 2022/06/21	Platelet Lysate Hydrogels for Myocardial Repair PTDC/BTM-MAT/30869/2017 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/07 - 2020/02/01	PANGEIA- Microencapsulated 3D+ Cancer-Stroma Microtumor-based In vitro Testing Platforms for High-Throughput Screening of Combinatorial Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030503 Researcher	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2013/02/01 - 2017/01/31	PHOTOACTIVE SILICA NANOPARTICLES FOR THERAPEUTICS AND BIO IMAGING SFRH/BD/88334/2012 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Custódio, C. A.; Santos, S. C.; Monteiro, C. F.; Deus, I. A.; Maria C. Gomes; Mano, J. F.. "Chapter 26. Animal Protein-based Soft Materials for Tissue Engineering Applications". In Soft Matter for Biomedical Applications, edited by João F. Mano; Helena S. Azevedo; João Borges, 660-683. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021. Published • 10.1039/9781839161124-00660 Deus, Inês A.; Santos, Sara C.; Monteiro, Cátia F.; Gomes, M. C. ; Custódio, Catarina A.; Mano, Joao F.. "Human protein-based soft materials for tissue engineering applications". In Soft Matter for Biomedical Applications. 2021. Accepted
Conference poster	Ana Rita Pinho; Dora Gosta; Maria C. Gomes; João F. Mano. "Protein-based liquified systems: a step closer to personalized medicine". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Biological and Biomimetic Adhesives, 2021. Gomes, Maria. "Carbohydrate Coated Gold Nanoparticles as SERS probes for Confocal Raman Microscopy of Cancer Cells". 2016. 10.1117/12.2080443 Gomes, Maria. "Photodynamic Inactivation of Conidia of Penicillium chrysogenum by Cationic Porphyrins". Paper presented in 14th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology (ESP), Geneva (Switzerland), 2011. Gomes, Maria. "Glycosylated Porphyrinoids for PDT applications". Paper presented in International Symposion on Advances in Synhtesis and Medicinal Chemistry, 2011. Maria C. Gomes. "Cationic galactoporphyrins for the photoinactivation of microorganisms". 2011. Gomes, Maria. "Porphyrins and phthalocyanines for wastewater treatment". Paper presented in European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, 2011. Gomes, Maria. "Synthesis, Caracterization and Biological Studies of Cationic Galactoporphyrins". Paper presented in International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2010. Gomes, Maria. "New cationic glycoporphyrins for the photoinactivation of microorganisms". Paper presented in Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting, 2010.
Journal article	Pinho, Ana R.; Gomes, Maria C.; Costa, Dora C. S.; Mano, João F.. "Bioactive Self-Regulated Liquified Microcompartments to Bioengineer Bone-Like Microtissues". Small (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202305029. 10.1002/smll.202305029 Zargarzadeh, Mehrzad; Gomes, Maria C.; Patrício, Sónia G.; Custódio, Catarina A.; Mano, João F.. "A Self-Sustaining Hydrogels with Autonomous Supply of Nutrients and Bioactive Domains for 3D Cell Culture". Advanced Functional Materials (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202214372. 10.1002/adfm.202214372 Gomes, Maria C.; Pinho, Ana Rita; Custódio, Catarina; Mano, João F.. "Self-Assembly of Platelet Lysates Proteins into Microparticles by Unnatural Disulfide Bonds for Bottom-up Tissue Engineering". Advanced Materials (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202304659. 10.1002/adma.202304659 Oliveira, Cláudia S.; Nadine, Sara; Gomes, Maria C.; Correia, Clara R.; Mano, João F.. "Bioengineering the human bone marrow microenvironment in liquefied compartments: A promising approach for the recapitulation of osteovascular niches". Acta Biomaterialia 149 (2022): 167-178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2022.07.001. 10.1016/j.actbio.2022.07.001 Ladeira, Bruno Miguel; Maria C. Gomes; Custodio, Catarina; Mano, João Filipe Colardelle da Luz. Corresponding author: Custodio, Catarina. "High-Throughput Production of Microsponges from Platelet Lysate for Tissue Engineering Applications". Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ten.tec.2022.0029. Published • 10.1089/ten.tec.2022.0029 Costa, Dora C. S.; Costa, Patrícia D. C.; Maria C. Gomes; Chandrakar, Amit; Wieringa, Paul A.; Moroni, Lorenzo; Mano, João F.. "Universal Strategy for Designing Shape Memory Hydrogels". ACS Materials Letters 4 (2022): 701-706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c00107. Published • 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c00107 Ng, Philipp; Pinho, Ana Rita; Maria C. Gomes; Demidov, Yan; Krakor, Eva; Grume, Daniela; Herb, Marc; et al. "Fabrication of Antibacterial, Osteo-inductor 3D Printed Aerogel-based Scaffolds by Incorporation of Drug Laden Hollow Mesoporous Silica Microparticles into the Self-assembled Silk Fibroin Biopolymer". Macromolecular Bioscience (2022): 2100442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mabi.202100442. Published • 10.1002/mabi.202100442 Jesus, Diana; Pinho, Ana R.; Maria C. Gomes; Oliveira, Cláudia S.; Mano, João F.. "Emerging modulators for osteogenic differentiation: a combination of chemical and topographical cues for bone microenvironment engineering". Soft Matter 18 16 (2022): 3107-3119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00009a. Published • 10.1039/d2sm00009a Maria C. Gomes; Chen, Juan; Cunha, Angela; Trindade, Tito; Zheng, Gang; Tomé, João P. C.. "Complex cellular environments imaged by SERS nanoprobes using sugars as an all-in-one vector". Journal of Materials Chemistry B (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1tb01360b. Published • 10.1039/d1tb01360b Maria C. Gomes; Costa, Dora C. S.; Oliveira, Cláudia S.; Mano, João F.. Corresponding author: Maria C. Gomes. "Design of Protein-Based Liquefied Cell-Laden Capsules with Bioinspired Adhesion for Tissue Engineering". Advanced Healthcare Materials (2021): 2100782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202100782. Published • 10.1002/adhm.202100782 Bharmoria, Pankaj; Bisht, Meena; Maria C. Gomes; Martins, Margarida; Neves, Márcia C.; Mano, João F.; Bdikin, Igor; Coutinho, João A. P.; Ventura, Sónia P. M.. "Protein-olive oil-in-water nanoemulsions as encapsulation materials for curcumin acting as anticancer agent towards MDA-MB-231 cells". Scientific Reports 11 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88482-3. Published • 10.1038/s41598-021-88482-3 Gomes, Maria C.; Mano, João F.. Corresponding author: Gomes, Maria C.. "Chemical modification strategies to prepare advanced protein-based biomaterials". Biomaterials and Biosystems 1 (2021): 100010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbiosy.2021.100010. Published • 10.1016/j.bbiosy.2021.100010 Neto, Mafalda D.; Stoppa, Aukha; Neto, Miguel A.; Oliveira, Filipe J.; Gomes, Maria C.; Boccaccini, Aldo R.; Levkin, Pavel A.; Oliveira, Mariana B.; Mano, João F.. "Fabrication of Quasi-2D Shape-Tailored Microparticles using Wettability Contrast-Based Platforms". Advanced Materials 33 14 (2021): 2007695. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.202007695. 10.1002/adma.202007695 Bharmoria, Pankaj; Mondal, Dibyendu; Pereira, Matheus M.; Neves, Márcia C.; Almeida, Mafalda R.; Maria C. Gomes; Mano, João F.; et al. "Instantaneous fibrillation of egg white proteome with ionic liquid and macromolecular crowding". Communications Materials 1 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-0035-0. Published • 10.1038/s43246-020-0035-0 Lourenço, Leandro M. O.; Rocha, Deisy M. G. C.; Ramos, Catarina I. V.; Maria C. Gomes; Almeida, Adelaide; Faustino, Maria A. F.; Almeida Paz, Filipe A.; et al. "Photoinactivation of Planktonic and Biofilm Forms of Escherichia coli through the Action of Cationic Zinc(II) Phthalocyanines". ChemPhotoChem 3 5 (2019): 251-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cptc.201900020. Published • 10.1002/cptc.201900020 Simões, C.; Maria C. Gomes; Neves, M.G.P.M.S.; Cunha, Â.; Tomé, J.P.C.; Tomé, A.C.; Cavaleiro, J.A.S.; Almeida, A.; Faustino, M.A.F.. "Photodynamic inactivation of Escherichia coli with cationic meso-tetraarylporphyrins - The charge number and charge distribution effects". Catalysis Today 266 (2016): 197-204. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84969753160&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.cattod.2015.07.031 Maria C. Gomes; Cunha, Â.; Trindade, T.; Tomé, J.P.C.. "The role of surface functionalization of silica nanoparticles for bioimaging". Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences 9 4 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84976477957&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1142/S1793545816300056 Lourenço, L.M.O.; Sousa, A.; Maria C. Gomes; Faustino, M.A.F.; Almeida, A.; Silva, A.M.S.; Neves, M.G.P.M.S.; et al. "Inverted methoxypyridinium phthalocyanines for PDI of pathogenic bacteria". Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 14 10 (2015): 1853-1863. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84942929561&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1039/c5pp00145e Rocha, D.M.G.C.; Venkatramaiah, N.; Maria C. Gomes; Almeida, A.; Faustino, M.A.F.; Almeida Paz, F.A.; Cunha, A.; Tomé, J.P.C.. "Photodynamic inactivation of Escherichia coli with cationic ammonium Zn(II) phthalocyanines". Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 14 10 (2015): 1872-1879. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84942855338&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1039/c5pp00147a Lopes, D.; Melo, T.; Santos, N.; Rosa, L.; Alves, E.; Maria C. Gomes; Cunha, Â.; et al. "Evaluation of the interplay among the charge of porphyrinic photosensitizers, lipid oxidation and photoinactivation efficiency in Escherichia coli". Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 141 1 (2014): 145-153. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84925440218&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2014.08.024 Maria C. Gomes; Fernandes, R.; Cunha, Â.; Tomé, J.P.; Trindade, T.. "Fluorescence biolabeling using methylated silica nanoparticles containing a lanthanide complex". Journal of Materials Chemistry B 1 40 (2013): 5429-5435. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84884607986&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Published • 10.1039/c3tb20688b Maria C. Gomes; Silva, Sandrina; Faustino, Maria A. F.; Neves, Maria G. P. M. S.; Almeida, Adelaide; Cavaleiro, José A. S.; Tomé, João P. C.; Cunha, Ângela. "Cationic galactoporphyrin photosensitisers against UV-B resistant bacteria: oxidation of lipids and proteins by1O2". Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 12 2 (2013): 262-271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2pp25149c. Published • 10.1039/c2pp25149c Costa, Dora C. S.; Maria C. Gomes; Faustino, Maria A. F.; Neves, Maria G. P. M. S.; Cunha, Ângela; Cavaleiro, José A. S.; Almeida, Adelaide; Tomé, João P. C.. "Comparative photodynamic inactivation of antibiotic resistant bacteria by first and second generation cationic photosensitizers". Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 11 12 (2012): 1905. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2pp25113b. Published • 10.1039/c2pp25113b Maria C. Gomes; Woranovicz-Barreira, S.M.; Faustino, M.A.F.; Fernandes, R.; Neves, M.G.P.M.S.; Tomé, A.C.; Gomes, N.C.M.; et al. "Photodynamic inactivation of Penicillium chrysogenum conidia by cationic porphyrins". Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 10 11 (2011): 1735-1743. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80455176460&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1039/c1pp05174a
Thesis / Dissertation	Gomes, Maria. "Photoactive nanoparticles for oprical bio imaging". PhD, 2016. Gomes, Maria. "Cationic galactoporphyrins on microorganisms photoinactivation". Master, 2010.

Intellectual property

Patent

Mano, Joao F.; Maria C. Gomes; Custódio, Catarina A.. 2022. "Platelet lysate-based microparticles, methods and uses thereof". Portugal.
Pending

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/05/29	Cysteine mastery: transforming platelet lystate proteins into advanced microparticles	World Biomaterials Congress (WBC) 2024 (Daegu, South Korea)
2010/11/10	Cationic galactopotphyrins on microorganims photoinactivation	XVI Encontro Luso-Galego de Químic (Aveiro, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09/16 - Current	Assembly of capsules using a robotic arm to build macro-sized tissues Supervisor	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/09/15 - Current	3D living puzzles: assembly of micro-capsules to build macro-sized tissues Supervisor	Biotechnology (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/01/01 - Current	Bioinspired protein-based liquified microcapsules with adhesive properties for bone regenerative medicine Supervisor	PhD in Biomedicine (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2023/01/10 - 2023/06/01	Supramolecular protein-based hydrogels as delivery systems Supervisor	BSc in Chemistry (Degree)
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/05	Chemical modification of human-derived proteins to develop personalized cell culture platforms and bioinks. Supervisor
2021/09/19 - 2022/11/18	Detection of biomarkers associated to cancer Co-supervisor	Master in Chemistry (Master)
2020/11/01 - 2021/03	Biomimetic human-based hydrogels through tannin-protein interactions Co-supervisor

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2017/10/12 - Current	Techdays Aveiro (2017/10/12 - 2017/10/14) Exhibition (Co-organisor)
2019/10/21 - 2019/10/25	Training School under COST Action ENBA entitle: Biomimetic adhesive polymers and hydrogels (2019/10/21 - 2019/10/25) Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018/11 - 2018/11	Training School under COST Action ENBA entitle: Biomimetic adhesive polymers and hydrogels (2018/11 - 2018/11)
2017 - 2017	ISBMS Congress - International symposium on bioinspired macromolecular systems (2017/11/06 - 2017/11/08) Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2016/05/21 - 2016/05/26	Poster communication Congress	ASP conference

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/02/14 - Current	Bioorganic Chemistry	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/01	Técnicas de Comunicações e Apresentações (Communication and Presentation Techniques)	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/09/10 - 2022/12/07	Advanced Biomaterials and Biomimetics	(Mestrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/01/06 - 2019/06/14	Engineering of Cells and Tissues	(Mestrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2022/12/01 - 2023/01/31	Member of external evaluation jury of Marie Curie ITN Networks for MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01) Evaluator

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020 - Current	Materials Today Bio (2590-0064)	Elsevier
2020 - Current	Langmuir	ASC Publications

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022 - Current	Member of external evaluation jury of Marie Curie ITN Networks.
2022 - Current	Member of external evaluation jury of Marie Curie ITN Networks. Type of action: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01)
2021/01/27 - Current	Member of the Jury of the M. Sc. curricular unit "Seminários" in Biochemistry, at University of Aveiro, of Graduate André Filipe Dias Lima - monography on "Platelet lysates-based hydrogels as 3D cell culture platforms for cardiac regeneration"
2019/07/19 - Current	Member of the Jury of the PhD curricular unit "Projeto tese" in Biotechnology, at University of Aveiro, of Graduate Lucia Isabel Ferreira Santos - monography on "Magnetic-responsive platforms to control cell behaviour for tissue engineering applications".
2020/10/28 - 2020/10/28	Member of the Jury of the PhD. curricular unit "Projeto de Tese" in Nanosciences and nanotechnology, at University of Aveiro, of Graduate Edgar Angelo Castanheira - monography on "Bioactive hybrid water-resistant adhesives for regenerative medicine".