Personal identification

Full name

Sara Patrícia de Sousa Pereira Moura

Citation names

• Moura, Sara
• Sara P. S. P. Moura

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

1F1A-46E8-A7C2

ORCID iD

0000-0001-5791-6528

Email addresses

• spmoura17@gmail.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Medicinal Chemistry
• Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)

	Degree	Classification
2018/09/01 - 2026 Ongoing	Ciências Farmacêuticas (Doutoramento) Major in Química Farmacêutica Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal "Novel abietane-type diterpenoid derivatives with potent anticancer activity " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/09/14 - 2017/10/11 Concluded	Bioquímica (Mestrado) Major in Métodos Biomoleculares Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Product of Biomode based in the PNA-FISH technology for the detection of Aspergillus fumigatus in the clinical area" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2012/09/11 - 2015/06/26 Concluded	Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	16

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/04/01 - 2023/04/30	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Spain
2019/02/01 - 2023/03/30	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal (...)
2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal (...)

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/02/01 - Current	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/09/19 - 2017/06/30	Estágio curricular	Biomode SA, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2016/07/01 - 2016/08/31	Estágio voluntário - Serviço de Patologia Clínica	Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga EPE, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/02/01 - 2023/03/30	Novel abietane-type diterpenoid derivatives with potent anticancer activity SFRH/BD/138674/2018 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal CNC.IBILI, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31	Tratamento do Cancro e da doença de Alzheimer: á descoberta de novos fármacos (Drugs2CAD) CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-003269 Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded

Publications

Conference poster	Sara P. S. P. Moura. "Novel urea-containing carnosic acid derivatives with anticancer activity". Paper presented in International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis (ISySyCat2025), 2025. Sara P. S. P. Moura. "Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel urea-containing carnosic acid derivatives with anticancer activity". Paper presented in 9th Portuguese Young Chemists Meeting (PYCHEM), 2025. Sara P. S. P. Moura. "Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel madecassic acid derivatives with anticancer potential". Paper presented in Congresso GP2A – 32nd Annual Conference Medicinal Chemistry Conference, 2024. Moura, Sara. "Novel semisynthetic A-ring-cleaved glycyrrhetinic acid derivatives as potential anticancer agents". Paper presented in X Congresso Iberoamericano de Ciências Farmacêuticas, 2023. Moura, Sara. "Novel semisynthetic derivatives of madecassic acid as potential anticancer agents". Paper presented in ACS FALL 2021, 2021. Moura, Sara. "Novel semisynthetic derivatives of madecassic acid with anticancer". Paper presented in 13th National Organic Chemistry Meeting - 6th National Medicinal Chemistry Meeting, 2020. Moura, Sara. "Madecassic Acid Derivatives as Potential Anticancer Agents: Synthesis and Cytotoxic Evaluation". Paper presented in CIBB Meeting 2019, 2019.
Journal article	André T. S. Vicente; Sara P. S. P. Moura; Jorge A. R. Salvador. "Synthesis, biological evaluation and clinical trials of Cereblon-based PROTACs". Communications Chemistry (2025): https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-025-01598-9. 10.1038/s42004-025-01598-9 Sara P. S. P. Moura; Marta Cascante; Ismael Rufino; Rita C. Guedes; Silvia Marin; Jorge A. R. Salvador. "Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel carnosic acid derivatives with anticancer activity". RSC Advances (2025): https://doi.org/10.1039/D5RA02441B. 10.1039/D5RA02441B Moura, Sara P. S. P.; Marín, Silvia; Rufino, Ismael; Guedes, Rita C.; Cascante, Marta; Salvador, Jorge A. R.. "Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Urea-Containing Carnosic Acid Derivatives with Anticancer Activity". International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 24 (2024): 13332. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms252413332. 10.3390/ijms252413332 Laura Cerqueira; Sara Moura; Carina Almeida; Maria João Vieira; Nuno Filipe Azevedo. "Establishment of a New PNA-FISH Method for Aspergillus fumigatus Identification: First Insights for Future Use in Pulmonary Samples". Microorganisms 8 12 (2020): 1950-1950. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8121950. 10.3390/microorganisms8121950 Moura, S.; Cerqueira, L.; Almeida, A.. "Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: current diagnostic methodologies and a new molecular approach". European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 37 8 (2018): 1393-1403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-018-3251-5. Published • 10.1007/s10096-018-3251-5
Thesis / Dissertation	Moura, Sara. "Product of Biomode based in the PNA-FISH technology for the detection of Aspergillus fumigatus in the clinical area". Master, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22371.