Curriculum Vitae
Joana Pinto da Silva
Identificação
Identificação pessoal
- Nome completo
- Joana Pinto da Silva
Nomes de citação
- Pinto-da-Silva, Joana
Identificadores de autor
- Ciência ID
- 9318-BAE4-B025
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7706-1544
Websites
- https://ccmar.ualg.pt/users/a54138 (Scholar)
Domínios de atuação
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pharmacology and pharmacy
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Gene-based Diagnostics and Therapeutic Interventions
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Idiomas
| Idioma | Conversação | Leitura | Escrita | Compreensão | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Idioma materno) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Formação
| Grau | Classificação | |
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2021/11/01 - 2025/11/01
Ongoing
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Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
"Repurposing bacterial lysates as immunomodulators for pulmonary administration as a strategy in prevention of respiratory
infections " (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
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2018/09 - 2020/11/26
Concluded
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Ciências Biomédicas - Mecanismos de Doenças (Mestrado)
Universidade do Algarve Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas e Medicina, Portugal
"Estudo do papel de uma proteína ligante de RNA num modelo animal das doenças de poliglutaminas" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
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18 |
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2015/09 - 2018/09
Concluded
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Ciências Biomédicas (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve Departamento de Ciências Biomédicas e Medicina, Portugal
"Infeção por HPV no trato genital inferior" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
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17 |
Percurso profissional
Science
| Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento |
Empregador | |
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| 2021/11/01 - 2025/11/01 | Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal | ||
| 2019/01/07 - 2019/02/01 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal |
| Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal |
Others
| Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento |
Empregador | |
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| 2021/11/01 - 2025/11/01 | PhD student | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
Projetos
Grant
| Designação | Financiadores | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/11/01 - 2025/11/01 | Repurposing bacterial lysates as immunomodulators for pulmonary administration as a strategy in prevention of respiratory
infections
2021.05769.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
Universidad de Navarra - Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Spain |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2024/09 - 2025/06 | In vivo assessment of bacterial lysate-loaded locust bean gum microparticles aimed at respiratory disease prevention upon
inhalation
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PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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Aerosol Society
Ongoing
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Contract
| Designação | Financiadores | |
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| 2019/10 - 2020/11/26 | Overexpression of the RNA-binding protein X as a therapeutic strategy to Machado-Joseph disease and other Polyglutamine diseases.
AFM-Telethon-22424
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina, Portugal
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Associação Francesa de Miopatias (AFM)-Telethon
Ongoing
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Produções
Publications
| Conference abstract |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Intellectual property
| Provisional application for patent |
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Atividades
Oral presentation
| Título da apresentação | Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento) |
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| 2025/09/12 | Repositioning Bacterial Lysates via Locust Bean Gum Spray-Dried Microparticles for Pulmonary Delivery | 23rd International Symposium on Microencapsulation
International Microencapsulation Society (Ferrara, Italy)
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| 2025/06/12 | In Vitro Safety Evaluation of Locust Bean Gum Microparticles for Respiratory Immunization | 10th Pulmonary Drug Delivery Conference
Istanbul University (Istanbul, Turkey)
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| 2025/05/13 | Engineeering polysaccharides to improve lung inhalation strategies | 2025 EAFP Annual Conference
European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2025/03/21 | Cytotoxicity assessment of locust bean gum microparticles aimed at pulmonary delivery of bacterial lysates | V International Congress in Health Science Research: from molecule to community
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
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| 2024/02/14 | Addressing the shortage of excipients approved for inhalation: In vitro and in vivo assessment of the toxicity of polysaccharides | XVth Spanish-Portuguese Conference on Controlled Drug Delivery - New Horizons in Drug Delivery
The Spanish Portuguese Local Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/06 | Repurposing bacterial lysates: an inhalation approach for respiratory infection management | Drug Delivery to the Lungs Conference
The Aerosol Society (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2023/10/27 | Repositioning Bacterial Lysates: Inhalation as a Strategy in the Management of Respiratory Diseases | X Congresso Iberoamericano de Ciências Farmacêuticas
Conferencia Iberoamericana de Faculdades de Farmacia A.C. (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2023/05/31 | Microencapsulation of bacterial lysates by spray-drying: microparticle characterisation and antigen stability | EUFEPS Annual Meeting
European Federation for Pharmaceutcial Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2022/10/05 | Repurposing bacterial lysates as immunomodulators. Studies in animal models | Training sessions/workshops
CIMA (Center for Applied Medical Research), University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain)
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| 2021/02/18 | Rbp-x protein mitigates motor deficits in different mice models of polyglutamine diseases | 51ª Reunião da Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia
Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa)
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| 2020/11/13 | On the role of an RNA-binding protein in a transgenic mouse model of Polyglutamine diseases | LabClub seminar
Centre for Biomedical Research (Faro, Portugal)
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Event participation
| Descrição da atividade Tipo de evento |
Nome do evento Instituição / Organização |
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| 2024/09/11 - 2024/09/13 | New Researcher Network Summer Event
Meeting
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New Researcher Network Summer Event
Drug Delivery to the Lungs Conference, United Kingdom
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| 2024/04/17 - 2024/04/19 | 9th Pulmonary Drug Delivery Workshop
Hands-on Workshops:
PBPK modelling - Dr. Will Ganley (Nanopharm, UK)
Aerosol Particle Characterisation – Drs. Clair Brooks & Matt Fenn (Copley, UK)
Microdosing – Mr. Gerhard Neumaier (Miccados, Germany)
Workshop
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9th Pulmonary Drug Delivery Workshop
The University of Dublin Trinity College, Ireland
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| 2022/04/27 - 2022/04/29 | Ethosomes, Spray-drying, skin preparation. Human and porcine skin preparation for Franz Cells. Set-up of Franz Cells. Tape-Stripping
and Differential Stripping. Microdialysis for Brain Drug Delivery. Stereotaxic surgery.
Workshop
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8th Galenus International Workshop Valencia: "The shape of things to come - Drug delivery systems from head to toe"
Galenus Foundation, Austria
Universitat de València Facultat de Farmàcia, Spain |
Association member
| Nome da associação | Tipo de participação | |
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| 2022/12/26 - Atual | Spanish-Portuguese Local Chapter of the Controlled Release Society (SPLC-CRS) | Member |
| 2020/11/08 - Atual | Associação Nacional de Ciências Biomédicas (ANCiB) | Member |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Tópico | Nome do aluno | |
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| 2024/03/11 - 2024/04/19 | Avaliação da toxicidade celular de micropartículas para inalação no contexto de prevenção de doenças respiratórias | Teresa Carvalho |
| 2023/05/22 - 2023/06/16 | Micropartículas com antigénio como imunomoduladores: avaliação do perfil de libertação e de citotoxicidade | Teresa Carvalho |
| 2023/03/28 - 2023/05/19 | Avaliação da citotoxicidade de extratos de uma microalga marinha num modelo celular de cancro colorretal | Sofia Setas |
| 2022/03/16 - 2022/04/28 | Desenvolvimento de uma vacina de administração pulmonar | Cláudia Branco, Medical Student |
| 2022/01/24 - 2022/03/17 | Biocompatybility of chitosan obtained from selected crustaceans from Poland | Zofia Nuc, PhD student |
Distinções
Award
| 2025 | Best Oral Presentation at V International Congress in Health Science Research
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
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| 2025 | Best Poster Award at the 10th Pulmonary Drug Delivery Conference |
| 2025 | 5-Minute Project Contest Award
AAPS Italian University Network Student Chapter, Italy
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| 2024 | Best Poster Award at the 9th Pulmonary Drug Delivery Workshop |