Identification
            Personal identification
- Full name
- Kevin Costa Leandro
Citation names
- Leandro, Kevin
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- A912-D4BF-7E2C
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3404-5138
Education
            | Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/10 - 2019/08 Concluded | ERASMUS + Programme - University of Ghent, Belgium (Mestrado integrado) Universiteit Gent, Belgium | |
| 2013/09 - 2018/09 Concluded | Integrated Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal Università di Bologna - Università di Bologna, Italy Universiteit Gent, Belgium "Drug-resistant Epilepsy: An overview on the relevance of ABC Transporters Superfamily" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) | 16 | 
| 2016/09 - 2017/07 Concluded | ERASMUS + Programme - University of Bologna, Italy (Mestrado integrado) Università di Bologna - Università di Bologna, Italy | 
Affiliation
            Others
| Category Host institution | Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/11/01 - 2025/07/28 | PhD Student at CNC - UC (under supervision of Prof. Luís Pereira de Almeida) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2019/09/06 - 2020/10/28 | Research Fellow in Pereira de Almeida's lab at CNC - UC, Coimbra, Portugal | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2018/10 - 2019/08 | Research Internship in Francis Impens Lab at the Center for Medical Biotechnology - VIB - University of Ghent, Belgium | Universiteit Gent, Belgium | 
| 2018/10 - 2018/10 | Laboratory rotation in Pereira de Almeida's lab at CNC - UC, Coimbra, Portugal | Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | 
| Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal | ||
| 2018/04/16 - 2018/08/17 | Trainee in Community Pharmacy | Farmácia Universal, Portugal | 
| Farmácia Universal, Portugal | ||
| 2018/01/11 - 2018/03/30 | Trainee at Health Technology Assessment Department, INFARMED, Lisbon, Portugal | Infarmed Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde IP, Portugal | 
| Infarmed Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde IP, Portugal | ||
| 2017/08 - 2017/08 | Trainee in Quality Assurance Department of Guardian Pharmatama, Bogor, Indonesia | Guardian Pharmatama, PT, Indonesia | 
| 2016/09 - 2017/07 | Erasmus Student at University of Bologna, Italy | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Italy | 
| 2016/08 - 2016/08 | Trainee in Community Pharmacy | Farmácia Machado, Portugal | 
| Farmácia Machado, Portugal | ||
| 2016/01 - 2016/07 | Trainee at Clinic Hematology Department, CHUC, Coimbra, Portugal | Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal | 
| Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra EPE, Portugal | 
Projects
            Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/05 - 2020/07 | Extracellular vesicles as a platform to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 systems (identification of EV-enriched proteins by mass spectrometry
                                 analysis)  EPIC-XS-0000244 PhD Student Fellow
                                     European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing access (EPIC-XS), Netherlands | European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing access (EPIC-XS) Concluded | 
Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/03 - 2020/06 | COVID-19 Task Force - University of Coimbra Volunteer
                                    
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Outputs
            Publications
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| Newspaper article | 
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Artistic / Performance
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Activities
            Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/08 | Extracellular vesicles delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 RNPs for therapeutic gene editing in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3 (presenting author) | 54th Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (Lisbon, Portugal) | 
| 2023/11/24 | Extracellular Vesicles-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Systems to Treat Machado-Joseph Disease/Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 3 (presenting author) | Pharma PhD Day Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal) | 
| 2023/06/15 | Extracellular Vesicles-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Systems to Treat Machado-Joseph Disease (presenting author) | 2023 CAG Triplet Repeat Disorder -Gordon Research Conference Gordon Research Conference  (West Dover, Vermont, United States) | 
| 2022/05/12 | Optimal recovery of brain-derived extracellular vesicles (presenting author) | 28th Porto Cancer Meeting i3S (Porto, Portugal) | 
| 2022/02/10 | Extracellular vesicles-mediated delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 systems for therapeutic genome editing (presenting author) | 52nd Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology ICBAS-UP (Porto, Portugal) | 
| 2021/11/14 | Extracellular communication mediated by EVs in mouse brain (co-author) | 1st Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles i3S (Porto, Portugal) | 
| 2021/09/14 | Extracellular vesicles-mediated delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 tools to treat Machado-Joseph Disease (presenting author) | 1st Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles i3S (Porto, Portugal) | 
| 2021/09/14 | Extracellular vesicles: a promising delivery system for silencing sequences to treat Machado-Joseph Disease (co-author) | 1st Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles i3S (Porto, Portugal) | 
| 2020/02/06 | Extracellular Vesicles for treatment of Machado-Joseph Disease (co-author) | SPF Meeting 2020 - Reunião Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Farmacologia Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal) | 
| 2019/12/06 | An effective packaging cell line to highly produce Extracellular Vesicles for therapy of Machado-Joseph Disease (co-author) | Microbiotec - Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2019 Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (Polo II) (Coimbra, Portugal) | 
| 2019/11/08 | An extracellular vesicle-based system to deliver silencing sequences for therapy of Machado-Joseph disease/ Spinocerebellar Ataxia type-3 (co-author) | 5th International GEIVEX 2019 Symposium Granada, Spain (Granada, Spain) | 
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - Current | International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) | Member | 
| 2020/02/27 - Current | European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) | Member | 
Distinctions
            Award
| 2022 | 1st Prize at "UC 3 Minute-Thesis Competition (3MT)" Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal | 
| 2021 | 1st Prize at "EIT Health i-Days" - European Health Innovation Competition | 
| 2020 | 1º Prize at "Building Tomorrow Together" - Acceleration and Open Innovation Competition promoted by Roche Portugal Roche Portugal, Portugal | 
| 2020 | 1st Prize at "Beyond the Lab" - Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Scientists Chaperone - Platform for personalised career support for scientists, Portugal | 
