Ana Cláudia Barbosa da Rocha (7C1D-690A-8F12)

Curriculum Vitae

Ana Cláudia Barbosa da Rocha

Ana Cláudia Barbosa da Rocha completed her degree in Orthoptics in 2021 at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto – School of Health. She obtained a Master’s degree in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience in 2025 from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP). Professionally, she is an Invited Assistant at the Orthoptics program at the School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and a Researcher at RISE-HEALTH@TBIO. She also has extensive experience in ophthalmic image grading, having worked at the Coimbra Ophthalmology Reading Center (CORC) as Technical Operations Manager and Orthoptist Grader Coordinator. Her research interests lie in Vision Sciences and Neurosciences, with a particular focus on ophthalmological diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ana Cláudia Barbosa da Rocha

Citation names

Rocha, Ana
Rocha, Ana Cláudia
Ana Cláudia Rocha

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 7C1D-690A-8F12
ORCID iD: 0009-0000-9014-0362

Email addresses

acbr747937@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

AIBILI - Azinhaga de Santa Comba, Celas, 3000-548, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaclaudiarocha15/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2025/09 - 2029 Ongoing	PhD Program in Neurosciences \| Programa Doutoral em Neurociências (Doutoramento) Major in Experimental Neurosciences \| Neurociências Experimentais Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2025/07/03 - 2025/07/03 Concluded	Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP E6R3) Training for Site Personnel (Outros) Syneos Health Inc, United States
2022/09/19 - 2025/02/27 Concluded	Msc in Molecular and Translational Neuroscience (Mestrado) Major in Mestrado em Neurociências Molecular e de Translação Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal "Retinal Changes and Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with No Diabetic Retinopathy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2025/01/20 - 2025/01/20 Concluded	Good Clinical Practice: A refresher Course for all Site Personnel Working on Clinical Research Studies (including ICH E6, Revision 2 Changes (Outros) Syneos Health Germany Munich, Germany	Approved
2022/01/15 - 2022/01/15 Concluded	Good Clinical Practice: A refresher Course for all Site Personnel Working on Clinical Research Studies (including ICH E6, Revision 2 Changes) (Outros) Syneos Health Germany Munich, Germany	Approved
2017/09/15 - 2021/07/19 Concluded	Orthoptics (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal	16
2021/02/02 - 2021/05/20 Concluded	Curricular Internship (Outros) Centro Hospitalar de Entre o Douro e Vouga EPE, Portugal	19
2021/04/15 - 2021/04/29 Concluded	Clinical Electrophysiology Course (Outros) Centro Hospitalar de Setubal EPE, Portugal	18
2020/09 - 2020/12 Concluded	Curricular Internship (Outros) Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos EPE, Portugal	18

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/11 - Current	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01/05 - 2025/10/21	Técnico de 2ª Classe (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Ortoptista)	Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal
	Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal
2021/11/09 - 2021/12/28	Técnico de 2ª Classe (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Ortoptista)	Hospital das Forças Armadas Pólo do Porto, Portugal
	Hospital das Forças Armadas Pólo do Porto, Portugal
2021/10/26 - 2021/11/02	Técnico de 2ª Classe (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Ortoptista)	Grupro Trofa Saúde, Portugal
	Hospital Privado de Alfena, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/11/08 - 2025/10/21	Technical Operations Manager/Orthoptist Grader Coordinator	Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal
	CORC - Coimbra Ophthalmology Reading Centre, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025 - Current	Research Assistant - PhD Student	Center for Translational Health and Medical Biotechnology Research \| Health Research Network (RISE-HEALTH@TBIO), Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022 - Current	MACUSTAR / ECR-AMD-2017-13 - Development of novel clinical endpoints for interventional clinical trials with a regulatory and patient access intention in patients with intermediate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03349801 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	European Union, Bélgica Ongoing
2022 - 2024	RECOGNISED / ECR-RET-2019-14 - Retinal and cognitive dysfunction in type 2 diabetes: unraveling the common pathways and identification of patients at risk of dementia ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04281186 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Fundació Hospital Universitari V all D’Hebron Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2024/11 - Current	A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of 2 Doses of EYE103 Compared With Ranibizumab (0.5 mg) in Participants With DME (BRUNELLO) NCT06571045 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Ongoing
2024 - Current	Vamikibart in Participants With Uveitic Macular Edema (Sandcat) NCT05642325 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Ongoing
2024 - Current	A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Masked, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study To Evaluate The Efficacy, Safety, Pharmacokinetics, And Pharmacodynamics Of Satralizumab In Participants With Moderate-To-Severe Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) NCT06106828 Researcher	Ongoing
2023/09 - Current	Randomized, Double-Masked, Active-Controlled, Phase 3 Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Aflibercept 8 mg in Macular Edema Secondary to Retinal Vein Occlusion EU-CT number: 2022-502174-16-00 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Bayer AG Ongoing
2023/04 - Current	A Phase III, Multicenter, Randomized, Doubçe-Masked, Sham-Controlled Study to Investigate the Efficay, Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamics of RO7200220 Administered Intravitreally in Patients with Macular Edema EU Trial Number: 2022-501793-19-00 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	F Hoffmann-La Roche AG Ongoing
2022/03/25 - Current	RICHARD - Retinal ischemia characterization in diabetes NCT05112445 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Ongoing
2022 - Current	CHART / ECR-RET-2020-15 - Characterization of Retinal disease progression in eyes with NPDR in diabetes Type 2 using non-invasive procedures ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04636307 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Ongoing
2023/04 - 2024/11/01	Diabetic Retinopathy Classification: ETDRS 7-fields vs Widefield Imaging (Clarus 500 and Optos California) NCT05746975 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Concluded
2022 - 2024	NEON: A Phase 2 randomized, placebo-controlled, double-masked proof-of-concept study to investigate the efficacy and safety of runcaciguat (BAY 1101042) in patients with moderately severe to severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy 2020-002333-15 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Bayer AG Concluded
2022/01 - 2023/06	RHONE-X: A Multicenter, Open-Label Extension Study to Evaluate the Long-Term Safety and Tolerability of Faricimab in Patients With Diabetic Macular Edema NCT04432831 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	F Hoffmann-La Roche AG Concluded
2022/01 - 2023/04	MyLight: A 52-week Multicenter, Randomized, Double-masked, 2-arm Parallel Study to Compare Efficacy, Safety and Immunogenicity of SOK583A1 to Eylea®, Administered Intravitreally, in Patients With Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration NCT04864834 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Novartis AG Concluded
2022 - 2022/11/30	AMDMetab - CEC/010/20 - Metabolomics: A Novel Tool for Investigating the Pathogenesis of Age-related Macular Degeneration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04241536 Researcher Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal	Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Ana Rita Santos; Ana Catarina Almeida; Ana Cláudia Rocha; Débora Reste-Ferreira; Inês Pereira Marques; Torcato Santos; José Cunha-Vaz. "Combination of Ultra-widefield Colour Fundus Photography and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography identify different subtypes of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2023, Vol.64, 2560.". Paper presented in ARVO Annual Meeting 2023, 2023.
Conference poster	Ana Cláudia Rocha; Ana Rita Santos; Débora Reste-Ferreira; Inês Pereira Marques; Noemi Lois; Rafael Simó; José Cunha-Vaz. "Retinal neurovascular structure is compromised in patients without "overt" Diabetic Retinopathy". Paper presented in ARVO Annual Meeting 2025, 2025. Ana Cláudia Rocha; Ana Rita Santos; Marta Lopes; Diana Ramos; Torcato Santos; Débora Reste-Ferreira; José Cunha-Vaz. "ETDRS Grading with CLARUS Ultra-widefield images shows agreement with 7-field Colour Fundus Photography". Paper presented in EasDec Conference 2023, 2023. Ana Rita Santos; Ana Catarina Almeida; Ana Cláudia Rocha; Débora Reste-Ferreira; Inês Pereira Marques; Torcato Santos; José Cunha-Vaz. "Combination of Ultra-widefield Colour Fundus Photography and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography identify different subtypes of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy". Paper presented in ARVO Annual Meeting 2023, 2023. Ana Cláudia Rocha; Sofia Sampaio; Ana Rita Santos; Mateus, Catarina. "Sensibilidade da perimetria Blue-on-Yellow vs FDT vs PEC na deteção de danos glaucomatosos precoces em doentes com glaucoma normotensional". Paper presented in 22º Congresso Nacional de Ortoptistas, 2022.
Journal article	Inês Marques; Débora Reste-Ferreira; Torcato Santos; Luís Mendes; Ana Cláudia Rocha; Francesco Bandello; Mariacristina Parravano; et al. "One-year progression of mild to severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy using non-invansive imaging. The CHART study". Translational Visual Science & Technology (2025): Submitted Luís Mendes; Ana Cláudia Rocha; Marta Lopes; Ana Almeida; Nicole Duarte; Débora Reste-Ferreira; António Cunha-Vaz Martinho; et al. "Microaneurysm counting as a biomarker for the hyperperfusion stage of NPDR". Ophthalmology and Therapy (2025): Published Mendes, Luís; Rocha, Ana; Lopes, Marta; Almeida, Ana; Duarte, Nicole; Reste-Ferreira, Débora; Martinho, António; et al. "Microaneurysm Counting as a Biomarker for the Hyperperfusion Stage of Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy". Ophthalmology and Therapy (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s40123-025-01179-y. 10.1007/s40123-025-01179-y Inês Pereira Marques; Débora Reste-Ferreira; Torcato Santos; Luís Mendes; Ana Cláudia Rocha; Taffeta Ching Ning Yamaguchi; Laszlo Marton Fazekas; José Cunha-Vaz. "One year progression of changes in capillary perfusion in advanced stages of NPDR - The RICHARD Study". Ophthalmology Science (2025): Submitted Santos, Ana Rita; Ghate, Sejal; Lopes, Marta; Rocha, Ana; Santos, Torcato; Reste-Ferreira, Débora; Manivannan, Niranchana; Foote, Katharina; Cunha-Vaz, José. "ETDRS grading with CLARUS ultra-widefield images shows agreement with 7-fields colour fundus photography". BMC Ophthalmology 24 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-024-03537-z. 10.1186/s12886-024-03537-z Santos, Ana Rita; Almeida, Ana Catarina; Rocha, Ana Cláudia; Reste-Ferreira, Débora; Marques, Inês Pereira; Cunha-Vaz Martinho, António; Mendes, Luís; et al. "Central and Peripheral Involvement of the Retina in the Initial Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy". Retina (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/iae.0000000000004021. 10.1097/iae.0000000000004021 Santos, Torcato; Santos, Ana Rita; Almeida, Ana Catarina; Rocha, Ana Cláudia; Reste-Ferreira, Débora; Marques, Inês Pereira; Cunha-Vaz Martinho, António; et al. "Retinal Capillary Nonperfusion in Preclinical Diabetic Retinopathy". Ophthalmic Research 66 1 (2023): 1327-1334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000534553. 10.1159/000534553
Thesis / Dissertation	"Retinal Changes and Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with No Diabetic Retinopathy". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, 2025.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/09/04	Audio-narreted presentation with title: "Microaneurysm counting as a biomarker for the hyperperfusion stage of NPDR"	25th Euretina Congress (Paris, France)
2025/07/04	What are my career options? / Quais são as minhas opções de carreira	Workshop "Quais são as minhas opções de carreira?" Escola Superior de Saúde do Politécnico do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2025/04/12	Retinal Changes and Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with No Diabetic Retinopathy	25º Congresso Nacional de Ortoptistas Associação Portuguesa Ortoptistas (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/12/07	Can CLARUS and OPTOS UWF images replace the Standard 7-fields Fundus Photographs? Comparison between the 3 devices	FLORETINA ICOOR MEETING
2024/10/26	Retinal Changes and Cognitive Impairment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with No Diabetic Retinopathy	1st Scientific Meeting of Orthoptics Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde (Porto, Portugal)
2024/09/18	Audio-narreted presentation with title: "Retinal neurovascular structure is compromised in patients without “overt” Diabetic Retinopathy "	24th EURETINA Congress
2024/04/19	New OCTA biomarkers for staging Diabetic Retinopathy	Congresso Nacional dos Ortoptistas APOR (Lisboa, Costa da Caparica, Portugal)
2023/11/30	CLARUS (or Wide-Field Fundus Imaging) Improves ETDRS Grading with Classic 7-fields Fundus Photographs	Floretina ICOOR 2023 (Roma, Italy)
2023/04	CLARUS (or Wide-Field Fundus Imaging) Improves ETDRS Grading with Classic 7-fields Fundus Photographs	Congresso Nacional dos Ortoptistas (Évora, Portugal)
2022/05/14	Microaneurysm Turnover in Mild NPDR is Associated with Progression and Development of Vision-Threatening Complications: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study	Congresso Nacional dos Ortoptistas APOR - Associação Portuguesa dos Ortoptistas (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Orientação de Estágio Supervisor	Orthoptics (Degree) Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/09/27 - 2025/09/27	II Scientific Meeting of Orthoptics \| II Reunião Científica de Ortóptica Conference	II Scientific Meeting of Orthoptics \| II Reunião Científica de Ortóptica Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2025/09/04 - 2025/09/07	Euretina Congress 2025 Congress	European Society of Retina Specialists, Ireland
2025/09/03 - 2025/09/03	EURETINA Innovation Spotlight (EIS) 2025 Congress	European Society of Retina Specialists, Ireland
2025/07/11 - 2025/07/12	XXXIII Jornadas Internacionais de Oftalmologia de Coimbra Conference	XXXIII Jornadas Internacionais de Oftalmologia de Coimbra Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal
2025/06/13 - 2025/06/14	21th International SPECTRALIS Symposium Conference	21th International SPECTRALIS Symposium Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, Germany
2025/05/03 - 2025/05/08	ARVO 2025 Conference	ARVO Annual Meeting 2025 The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Inc, United States
2025/04/11 - 2025/04/13	25º Congresso Nacional de Ortoptistas Congress	APOR - Associação Portuguesa dos Ortoptistas, Portugal
2024/12/05 - 2024/12/08	FLORetina ICOOR Meeting 2024 - 12nd International Congress on OCT and OCT angiography Congress	AP Meetings, Italy
2024/10/25 - 2024/10/26	1º Reunião Científica de Ortóptica Congress	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2024/09/19 - 2024/09/22	24th EURETINA Congress Congress	European Society of Retina Specialists, Ireland
2024/04/18 - 2024/04/20	24º Congresso Nacional de Ortoptistas Congress	APOR - Associação Portuguesa dos Ortoptistas, Portugal
2024/03/01 - 2024/03/02	8º Reunião GER Congress	Grupo de Estudos da Retina, Portugal
2023/11/30 - 2023/12/03	FLORetina ICOOR Meeting 2023 - 11th International Congress on OCT and OCT angiography Congress	AP Meetings, Italy
2023/06/01 - 2023/06/03	EasDec Conference 2023 Conference	Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal
2023/04/13 - 2023/04/15	23º Congresso Nacional de Ortoptistas Congress	APOR - Associação Portuguesa dos Ortoptistas, Portugal
2022/05/13 - 2022/05/15	22º Congresso Nacional de Ortoptistas Congress	APOR - Associação Portuguesa dos Ortoptistas, Portugal
2021/10/21 - 2021/10/23	Estrabismo 2021 Congress	Clínica DYTO, Spain
2021/09/15 - 2021/09/15	Webinar SPO - Retinoblastoma: the importance of early diagnosis Workshop	Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Portugal
2021/04/21 - 2021/04/21	OCT LIVE Virtual Workshop: OCT Angiography Module Workshop	Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, Germany
2021/04/17 - 2021/04/17	Online course: Optical Coherence Tomography in the Posterior Segment \| OCT and OCT angiography Workshop	Associação para a Investigação Biomédica e Inovação em Luz e Imagem, Portugal
2021/03/24 - 2021/03/24	Webinar CIRP: Cálculo da lente para cirurgia de catarata no doente com queratocone estável Workshop	Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Portugal
2021/02/27 - 2021/02/27	Seminário: Cirurgia Refrativa Seminar	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2019/10/10 - 2019/10/10	Conferência "Deficiência Visual e Reabilitação: A inclusão da pessoa com deficiência visual na sociedade" Conference	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024 - Current	EURETINA - European Society of Retina Specialists
2024 - Current	ARVO - The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
2022 - Current	Associação Portuguesa Ortoptistas (APOR)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2025/09 - Current	Curricular Unit "Visual Processing Mechanisms II \| Mecanismos de Processamento Visual II"	Degree in Orthoptics \| Licenciatura em Ortóptica (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2024/09 - Current	Curricular Unit: "Psicofísica da Visão/Psychophysics of Vision"	Degree in Orthoptics	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2023/11 - Current	Curricular Unit: "Perimetria/Perimetry"	Degree in Orthoptics	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal
2025/02/12 - 2025/03/12	Course: "Microcredential: Primary Vision Health Care / Microcredencial: Cuidados Primários de Saúde da Visão"	(Outros)	Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Saúde, Portugal