Sofia Mensurado Santos (BA10-56F0-7CAD)

Curriculum Vitae

Sofia Mensurado Santos

Sofia Mensurado works in the area of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on OncoImmunology. She studied Health Sciences and Biochemistry (University of Lisbon). Developed the Master Thesis Dissertation work under supervision of Prof. Bruno Silva-Santos. In 2016 enrolled in the LisbonBiomed PhD program and developed the PhD Thesis Dissertation work under supervision of Prof. Karine Serre. During the PhD training period did two internships: at Venizelos Papayannopoulos's Lab, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK (2017) and at Seth Coffelt's Lab, The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK (2018). Graduated in June 2020 in Biomedical Sciences - Immunology (Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa). From 2020-2022 Sofia was an invited researcher at the immuno-oncology biotech company Gamma Delta Therapeutics (London, UK), under the supervision of Dr. Alice Brown. In 2022 she was awarded a 6-year junior researcher contract (235,000euros) in the very competitive Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus by FCT and is now responsible for the establishment of a Sponsored Research Agreement with Takeda Oncology (Boston, USA). Published 15 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Performed 15 oral presentations in scientific conferences and co-organized 4 events. Supervised 5 MSc dissertations and co-supervised 1. Is a lecturer of Immuno-Oncology in Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. Has received 10 awards and/or honors and contributed to almost 60,000euros (in project grants and awards) to fund research projects. Has given several interviews and participated in scientific outreach activities to disseminate scientific results and raise awarness for the importance of biomedical research.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sofia Mensurado Santos

Citation names

Mensurado, Sofia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: BA10-56F0-7CAD
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5157-0033
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=83kKWFAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology

Languages

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

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016/01 - 2020/06 Concluded	Biomedical Sciences (Doutoramento) Major in Immunology Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal "Regulation of T cell fitness and functions in tumour responses" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction and honours (maximum grade)
2013/09 - 2015/10 Concluded	Biochemistry (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Crosstalk between immunosuppressive myeloid and effector lymphoid cells in the tumour microenvironmnet" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18/20; 20/20 in thesis dissertation
2010/09 - 2013/07 Concluded	Health Sciences (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16/20 (Top 5 out of 32)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/06/22 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal

2020/01/01 - Current	Visiting Researcher (Research)	GammaDelta Therapeutics Ltd, United Kingdom
	GammaDelta Therapeutics Ltd, United Kingdom
2016/01 - 2020/06	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal (...)
2013/02 - 2015/12	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/06/01 - Current	Regulation of gamma-delta T cells in the tumor microenvironment and their manipulation towards immunotherapy of solid cancers (250,000€) PTDC/MED-ONC/6829/2020 Post-doc Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/06/12 - 2020	PROMISE > PROgramming anti-tumour Myeloid cells to Improve immunotherapy StratEgies (239,896€) PTDC/MED-IMU/30948/2017 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018 - 2019	Sulfur-containing amino acid dietary modulation of breast cancer immunity (25,000€) Fundo iMM-Laço 2017 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	Fundo iMM-Laço Concluded
2015 - 2016	Modulation of T cell fitness in the tumour microenvironment (6,000€) FAZ Innovate Competition 2015 Master Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	Fundação AstraZeneca Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022 - Current	Dissecting regulators of anti-tumor gamma-delta T cells for improved solid cancer immunotherapy (235,000€) 2021.01953.CEECIND Post-doc Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020 - Current	GDT - Sponsored Research Agreement IMM/BI/75-2019 Post-doc GammaDelta Therapeutics Ltd, United Kingdom Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	GammaDelta Therapeutics Ltd Ongoing
2016/01 - 2019/12	Regulation of T cell fitness and function in tumour responses PD/BD/114099/2015 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Journal article

Mensurado, Sofia; Condeço, Carolina; Diego Sánchez-Martínez; Sara Shirley; Rui M. L. Coelho; Tirado, Néstor; Meritxell Vinyoles ; et al. Corresponding author: SILVA-SANTOS, Bruno. "CD155/PVR determines Acute Myeloid Leukemia targeting by Delta One T cells". Blood (2024): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006497124004518.
In press
Costa, Gonçalo Palrão; Mensurado, Sofia; Silva-Santos, Bruno. "Therapeutic avenues for ¿d T cells in cancer". Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 11 11 (2023): e007955. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2023-007955.
10.1136/jitc-2023-007955
Silva-Santos, Bruno; Mensurado, Sofia. "Gamma-delta T cells maintain sensitivity to immunotherapy in MHC-I-deficient tumors". Nature Immunology 24 3 (2023): 387-388. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01429-w.
10.1038/s41590-023-01429-w
Papotto, Pedro H.; Yilmaz, Bahtiyar; Pimenta, Gonçalo; Mensurado, Sofia; Cunha, Carolina; Fiala, Gina J.; Gomes da Costa, Daniel; et al. "Maternal gamma-delta T cells shape offspring pulmonary type 2 immunity in a microbiota-dependent manner". Cell Reports 42 2 (2023): 112074. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112074.
10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112074
Mensurado, Sofia; Blanco-Domínguez, Rafael; Silva-Santos, Bruno. "The emerging roles of gamma-delta T cells in cancer immunotherapy". Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 20 3 (2023): 178-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41571-022-00722-1.
10.1038/s41571-022-00722-1
Mensurado, Sofia; Silva-Santos, Bruno. "Battle of the gamma-delta T cell subsets in the gut". Trends in Cancer 8 11 (2022): 881-883. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trecan.2022.08.006.
10.1016/j.trecan.2022.08.006
Sánchez Martínez, Diego; Tirado, Néstor; Mensurado, Sofia; Martínez-Moreno, Alba; Romecín, Paola; Gutiérrez Agüera, Francisco; Correia, Daniel V; Silva-Santos, Bruno; Menéndez, Pablo. "Generation and proof-of-concept for allogeneic CD123 CAR-Delta One T (DOT) cells in acute myeloid leukemia". Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 10 9 (2022): e005400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2022-005400.
10.1136/jitc-2022-005400
Bonavita, Eduardo; Bromley, Christian P.; Jonsson, Gustav; Pelly, Victoria S.; Sahoo, Sudhakar; Walwyn-Brown, Katherine; Mensurado, Sofia; et al. "Antagonistic Inflammatory Phenotypes Dictate Tumor Fate and Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade". Immunity 53 6 (2020): 1215-1229.e8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.10.020.
Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.immuni.2020.10.020
Silva-Santos, Bruno; Mensurado, Sofia; Coffelt, Seth B.. "Gamma-delta T cells: pleiotropic immune effectors with therapeutic potential in cancer". Nature Reviews Cancer 19 7 (2019): 392-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41568-019-0153-5.
10.1038/s41568-019-0153-5
Ribot, Julie C.; Neres, Rita; Zuzarte-Luís, Vanessa; Gomes, Anita Q.; Mancio-Silva, Liliana; Mensurado, Sofia; Pinto-Neves, Daniel; et al. "Gamma-delta-T cells promote IFN-gamma-dependent Plasmodium pathogenesis upon liver-stage infection". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 20 (2019): 9979-9988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1814440116.
Open access • Published • 10.1073/pnas.1814440116
Mensurado, Sofia; Rei, Margarida; Lança, Telma; Ioannou, Marianna; Gonçalves-Sousa, Natacha; Kubo, Hiroshi; Malissen, Marie; et al. "Tumor-associated neutrophils suppress pro-tumoral IL-17+ gammadelta T cells through induction of oxidative stress". PLOS Biology 16 5 (2018): e2004990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2004990.
Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pbio.2004990
Rodrigues, Neidy V.; Correia, Daniel V.; Mensurado, Sofia; Nóbrega-Pereira, Sandrina; deBarros, Ana; Kyle-Cezar, Fernanda; Tutt, Andrew; et al. "Low-Density Lipoprotein Uptake Inhibits the Activation and Antitumor Functions of Human Vgamma9Vdelta2 T Cells". Cancer Immunology Research 6 4 (2018): 448-457. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/2326-6066.cir-17-0327.
Open access • Published • 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-17-0327
Papotto, Pedro H; Gonçalves-Sousa, Natacha; Schmolka, Nina; Iseppon, Andrea; Mensurado, Sofia; Stockinger, Brigitta; Ribot, Julie C; Silva-Santos, Bruno. "IL-23 drives differentiation of peripheral gamma-delta17 T cells from adult bone marrow-derived precursors". EMBO reports 18 11 (2017): 1957-1967. http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.201744200.
Open access • Published • 10.15252/embr.201744200
Kubo, Hiroshi; Mensurado, Sofia; Gonçalves-Sousa, Natacha; Serre, Karine; Silva-Santos, Bruno. "Primary Tumors Limit Metastasis Formation through Induction of IL15-Mediated Cross-Talk between Patrolling Monocytes and NK Cells". Cancer Immunology Research 5 9 (2017): 812-820. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/2326-6066.cir-17-0082.
Open access • Published • 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-17-0082
Rei, M.; Goncalves-Sousa, N.; Lanca, T.; Thompson, R. G.; Mensurado, S.; Balkwill, F. R.; Kulbe, H.; Pennington, D. J.; Silva-Santos, B.. "Murine CD27(-) Vgamma6(+) gamma-delta T cells producing IL-17A promote ovarian cancer growth via mobilization of protumor small peritoneal macrophages". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 34 (2014): E3562-E3570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1403424111.
Open access • Published • 10.1073/pnas.1403424111

Thesis / Dissertation

Mensurado, Sofia. "Regulation of T cell fitness and functions in tumour responses". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, 2020.
Santos, Sofia Mensurado. "Crosstalk between immunosuppressive myeloid and effector lymphoid cells in the tumour microenvironment". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/20551.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/06	Molecular determinants of Acute Myeloid Leukemia targeting by Delta One T cells	10th International gd T cell conference (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/11/11	Delta One T cells: a new player in adoptive immunotherapy of cancer	II Ibero-American Virtual Congress of Flow Cytometry Latin Flow (online, Spain)
2019/11	Methionine increases the efficacy of suboptimal anti-PD-1 treatment by boosting an anti-tumour gamma-delta/ CD8+ T cell crosstalk	Crosstalks of Immunity and Metabolism Symposium Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
2019/05/17	Regulation of T cell fitness in the tumour microenvironment: From myeloid cells to dietary factors.	XIII Annual CAML PhD Students Meeting Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina; Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/05	Methionine intake improves the efficacy of breast cancer immunotherapy	XLV Annual Meeting of Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/05	Immunotherapy and its mechanisms of cardiotoxicity	IV Congresso Internacional de Imagem Médica e Radioterapia Escola Superior de Saúde Dr. Lopes Dias (Castelo Branco)
2018/06	Tumour-associated neutrophils suppress pro-tumoral IL-17+ gamma-delta T cells through induction of oxidative stress	8th International Gamma-delta T cell Conference ImmunoConcept (Bordeaux, France)
2018/06	Tumour-associated neutrophils suppress pro-tumoral IL-17+ gamma-delta T cells through induction of oxidative stress	8th International Conference on Tumour Microenvironment, Progression, Therapy and Prevention The International Cancer Microenvironment Society (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/03	Tumour-associated neutrophils suppress pro-tumoral IL-17+ gamma-delta T cells through induction of oxidative stress	XII World Immune Regulation Meeting SIAF (Davos, Switzerland)
2017/09	Tumor-associated neutrophils suppress pro-tumoral IL-17+ gamma-delta T cells through induction of oxidative stress	Workshop Understanding Tumour Immunology Cancer Research UK, Beatson Institute (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2016/06	In vivo inhibition of tumour-associated IL-17-producing gamma-delta T cells by neutrophils	7th International Gamma-delta T cell Conference King's College London (London, United Kingdom)
2016/04/01	Regulation of T cell fitness in the tumour microenvironment: from myeloid cells to dietary factors	X Annual CAML PhD Students Meeting Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina; Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/10	In vivo inhibition of tumour-associated gamma-delta T cells by polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cells	XLI Annual Meeting of Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia (Braga, Portugal)
2015/09	Modulation of T cell fitness in the tumour microenvironment	iMed Conference 7.0 – Innovate Competition Nova Medical School’s Students’ Union (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/07	In vivo inhibition of tumour-associated gamma-delta T cells by polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cells	First Symposium on Immunomodulation in Cancer & Regeneration Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (Porto, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021/09 - 2023/04	Regulatory T cell depletion unleashes an IFN-gamma+ gamma-delta T cell response in the tumour microenvironment Supervisor	Mestrado em Oncobiologia (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022 - 2023	Therapeutic avenues for gamma-delta T cells in cancer Supervisor	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Dissecting microenvironment roadblocks to DOT-cell immunotherapy Supervisor	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/12	Re-purposing Delta One T cells for immunotherapy of solid tumours: Colon cancer as proof-of-principle Supervisor	Biomedical Engeneering (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2020/01 - 2020/08/24	Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer Cell Recognition by Delta One T (DOT) cells in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Colon Cancer Supervisor	Biotechnology (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal Wageningen Universiteit Laboratorium voor Celbiologie, Netherlands
2017/09 - 2018/10/29	Methionine supplementation improves the efficacy of breast cancer immunotherapy Co-supervisor	Biotechnology (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/01/01 - 2023/06/23	Organizing committee of the 10th international gamma-delta T cell conference (2023/06/20 - 2023/06/23) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/04/29	Open day at iMM to celebrate Immunology Day with scientific exhibitions and activities for high school students and families (2019/04/29 - 2019/04/29) Other (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018	Organisation of the XII CAML PhD Students' Meeting held at Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa This activity involved invitation of international speakers, invitation of PhD students from Institut Pasteur, attracting sponsorhips, development of website and abstract book, invitation of evaluators, logistics (food, accomodation, transport) https://xiiphdstudentsmeeting.weebly.com/ (2018/05/23 - 2018/05/25) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Organisation of the XI CAML PhD Students' Meeting held at Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa. This activity involved invitation of international speakers, attracting sponsorhips, development of abstract book, invitation of evaluators, logistics (food, accomodation, transport) (2017/05/24 - 2017/05/26) Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2023/03 - Current	Poster presentation - Molecular determinants of Acute Myeloid Leukemia targeting by Delta One T cells Symposium	Cancer Immunotherapy: Mechanisms of responses versus resistance Keystone Symposia, United States
2021/11/09 - 2021/11/12	Invited speaker: “Delta One T cells: a new player in adoptive immunotherapy of cancer?” Congress	II Ibero-American Virtual Congress of Flow Cytometry Latin Flow, Spain
2020/09/20 - 2020/09/20	Attendence at International Summit Meeting	Gamma Delta T Therapies Summit Hanson Wade, United Kingdom
2020/03/02 - 2020/03/04	Attendence at International Meeting	EACR-AACR Basic and Translational Research Conference in partnership with ASPIC: Tumor Microevironment European Association For Cancer Research, United Kingdom American Association for Cancer Research, United States Portuguese Association for Cancer Research, Portugal
2019/10/28 - 2019/10/30	Poster presentatation - Methionine intake improves the efficacy of breast cancer immunotherapy Conference	Immunogenomics 2019 Conference HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, United States
2019/10/03 - 2019/10/03	Scientific outreach activity - Breast cancer: Health and Science Workshop	Good Hair Day Event Fundo iMM-Laço, Portugal
2019/09/18 - 2019/09/18	Scientific outreach activity - Breast cancer: Health and Science Workshop	Projeto Passo a Passo Fundo iMM-Laço, Portugal
2019/04/04 - 2019/04/04	Scientific outreach activity for high school students Workshop	Breast Cancer: Health and Science Fundo iMM-Laço, Portugal Escola Secundária Braamcamp, Portugal
2019/03/27 - 2019/03/29	Poster Presentation - Methionine intake improves the efficacy of breast cancer immunotherapy Workshop	Workshop on Dendritic Cell Biology, Lisbon, Portugal Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal Institut Curie, France
2018/06/27 - 2018/06/29	Poster presentation - Methionine metabolism modulation for potentiation of immunotherapy efficacy Meeting	XLIV Annual Meeting of Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2018/05/23 - 2018/05/25	Poster presentation - Methionine intake improves breast cancer immunotherapy efficacy Meeting	XII Annual CAML PhD Students Meeting Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2018/05/05 - 2018/05/12	Poster presentation - Methionine metabolism modulation for potentiation of immunotherapy efficacy Other	13th ENII EFIS Summer School on Advanced Immunology European Network of Immunology Institutes, Italy European Federation of Immunological Societies, Germany
2017/11/24 - 2017/11/24	Scientific outreach activity for primary school students Workshop	Ciência a Brincar ("Playing with Science") Colégio da Fonte, Portugal
2017/11/02 - 2017/11/02	Scientific outreach activity for high school students Workshop	Breast Cancer: Health and Science Fundo iMM-Laço, Portugal Escola Secundária da Ramada, Portugal
2017/06/14 - 2017/06/16	Poster presentation - Neutrophil-mediated inhibition of pro-tumor IL-17-producing gamma-delta T cells Meeting	XLIII Annual Meeting Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2017/05/24 - 2017/05/26	Poster presentation - Neutrophil-mediated inhibition of pro-tumour IL-17-producing gamma-delta T cells Meeting	XI Annual CAML PhD Students Meeting Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia de Medicina Molecular, Brazil
2017/05/22 - 2017/05/22	Scientific outreach activity for primary school students Workshop	Ciência a Brincar ("Playing with Science") Escolinha da Tia Ló, Portugal
2016/06/01 - 2016/06/03	Poster presentation - In vivo inhibition of tumour-associated IL-17-producing gamma-delta T cells by neutrophils Meeting	XLII Annual Meeting Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2014/10/13 - 2014/10/15	Poster presentation - In vivo inhibition of anti-tumour gamma-delta T cell responses by polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cells Meeting	XL Annual Meeting Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2021/12/06	Targeting a bicarbonate transporter in pancreatic cancer overcomes immunosuppression (Thesis) Main arguer	Francisco Leiria Mendes Landum (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - Current	The European Association for Cancer Research	Member
2019 - Current	ASPIC, Associação Portuguesa de Investigação em Cancro (Portuguese Association for Cancer Research)	Member
2014 - Current	Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia (Portuguese Society for Immunology)	Member

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021/02/23 - 2024/03/01	Human systems in immuno-oncology research	Medicina (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022/02 - 2024/03	Introduction to Immuno-Oncology	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022 - 2024	Cancer immunotherapies: upgrade your defences	Annual International Medical Students Meeting (Outros)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2023 - 2023	Immunotherapy	Oncobiology (Pós-Graduação)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/02/23 - 2022/02/23	Adoptive Cell Therapy	Medicina (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021/11/04 - 2021/11/04	Journal Club. Immunity and Infection	Investigação Biomédica (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2021/03/15 - 2021/03/15	Evading and Hijacking the Immune System	Bioquímica (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/02/22 - 2021/02/26	Theorical session: Adoptive Cell Immunotherapies Practical session: Journal club, evaluation session	Oncobiology (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017/05 - 2017/05	Gamma-delta T cells in the tumor microenvironment	Master in Molecular Biology and Genetics (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/05 - 2016/05	Gamma-delta T cell subsets in cancer	Master in Molecular Biology and Genetics (Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2020/10/23	Interview about the project funded by Fundo iMM-Laço on immunotherapy of breast cancer	Público
2020/10/06	Interview about breast cancer types, risk factors and recent advances in breast cancer research and therapy	Activa
2020/10/03	Interview about the project funded by Fundo iMM-Laço on immunotherapy of breast cancer	Diário de Notícias
2018/04/06	Interview on the research to be developed under the project funded by Fundo iMM-Laço	Diário de Notícias

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2020/10/30 - 2020/10/30	Pink Ribbon Talks	Breast cancer awarness and research
2020/10/06 - 2020/10/06	Convidado Extra - "Todos os dias se formam tumores dentro de nós"	Tumour immunosurveillance and immunotherapy - breast cancer

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020/09 - Current	Laboratory tutoring of undergraduatestudent under the program "Educação pela Ciência"	Tomás Santos
2015/01 - 2015/12	Laboratory tutoring of undergraduate student under the program "Educação pela Ciência"	Ana Rita Franco

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2020/07/03 - 2020/07/03	Bachelor laboratory project discussion and evaluation on "The impact of cytokines on LDL-R expression in breast cancer" by João Fontela	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2023	Best Oral Communication Award at 10th International Gamma-Delta T cell Conference
2022	Best Poster Award at XLVII Annual Meeting of Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2019	Best Poster Award (300€) Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2019	Best Paper Award 2019 Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal
2018	Travel Grant (400€) Gamma-delta T cell Conference Organising Committee, France
2018	Best Oral Presentation (300€) XII World Immune Regulation Meeting Scientific Committee, Switzerland
2018	1st Prize of Prémio Janssen Inovação (30.000€) Janssen-Cilag Farmacêutica Lda, Portugal, Portugal
2018	Prémio de Investigação FAZCiência 2018 (3rd place). Fundação AstraZeneca, Portugal Sociedade Portuguesa de Oncologia, Portugal
2016	Travel Grant Gamma-delta T cell Conference Organising Committee, United Kingdom
2016	Travel Grant (500€) Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, Portugal