Maria Cândida Balão Mendes (C51D-6B41-1BA3)

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Cândida Balão Mendes

Maria Mendes hold a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, with specialization in Biomedical Instrumentation and Biomaterials, at the University of Coimbra, in 2017. During her master’s dissertation, she focused on mutual interaction between sterilization methods and cell behavior onto scaffolds to be applied in alveolar bone regeneration, developed on ICBR (Coimbra). After completed her master degree, she worked on a Research Project at 3B’s Research Group (University of Minho) on the development of an antibacterial film to be applied on hospital surfaces. Subsequently, she got a research fellow position at the COMPASS RG, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, under the scope of PROMENADE project (PTDC/BTM MAT/29830/2017). She is currently pursuing her PhD in Biotechnology at the COMPASS RG under the supervision of Professor João Mano and Doctor Ana Sofia Silva, where she will focus on the development of a new generation of micropatterned 3D bioscaffolds for bone repair, therefore extending the applicability of material science to the expanding field of tissue engineering.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Maria Cândida Balão Mendes

Citation names

Maria C. Mendes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: C51D-6B41-1BA3
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8837-1046

Email addresses

mcbmendes94@gmail.com (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone

917655601 (Personal)

Addresses

Rua das Oliveiras, Dume, nº5, 4700-073, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
Engineering and Technology - Industrial Biotechnology - Bioproducts Biomaterials
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
German	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2019/11/01 - 2023/10/31 Ongoing	Biotechnology (Doutoramento) Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
2012/09/15 - 2017/09/26 Concluded	Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal "Sterilization methods versus cell adhesion for scaffolds in Dentistry applications" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/02/01 - 2019/10/31	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal

2018/02/27 - 2018/08/26	Researcher (Research)	Biomaterials Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/07/08 - 2016/08/08	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/11/01 - Current	Magnetically driven fully 3D controlled channel-like formation in hydrogels for vascularization in bone tissue engineering strategies SFRH/BD/146740/2019 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/02/27 - 2018/08/26	FLEXPOL - Antimicrobial FLEXible POLymers for its use in hospital environments H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 Research Fellow Biomaterials Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Portugal	European Commission Horizon 2020 Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/01/03 - Current	PROMENADE- 3D cells colonization in marine-derived hydrogels through controlled micro-channels patterning for bone repair PTDC/BTM-MAT/29830/2017 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference poster	Mendes, Maria C.; Santos, Lúcia F.; Silva, A. Sofia; Mano, Joao F.. Corresponding author: Mano, Joao F.. "Enzymatic degradable laminarin hydrogels as cell delivery systems". Paper presented in Jornadas CICECO 2021, 2021. Mendes, Maria C.; Santos, Lúcia F.; Silva, A. Sofia; Mano, Joao F.. Corresponding author: Mano, Joao F.. "Engineering a magneto-enzimatic microcarrier system to design channel-like topographies for future bone repair". Paper presented in Jornadas CICECO 2020, 2020. Mendes, Maria C.; Silva, A. Sofia; Mano, Joao F.. Corresponding author: Mano, Joao F.. "Magnetically sculped laminarin-based hydrogels for future TE applications". Paper presented in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Meeting 2020, 2020. Santos, Lúcia F.; Silva, A. Sofia; Mendes, Maria; Mano, Joao F.. Corresponding author: Mano, Joao F.. "Versatile stratified 3D tissues through magnetic cell sheet". Paper presented in Jornadas CICECO 2019, 2019. Mendes, Maria; Coimbra, Patricia; Figueiredo, Margarida; Santos, Ana C.. "The effect of sterilization method on PCL/HA scaffolds for alveolar bone regeneration". Paper presented in Department of Physics of the University of Coimbra, 2017. Mendes, Maria; Pereira, Francisca; Cunha, Henrique; Oliveiros, Bárbara; Santos, Ana C.. "Green Tea Eoigallocathechin-3-gallate (EGCG) – A Natural Agent Against Colorectal & Breast Cancer". Paper presented in Department of Physics of the University of Coimbra, 2017. Mendes, Maria; Coimbra, Patricia; Figueiredo, Margarida; Santos, Ana C.. "In vitro & in vivo study of poly-caprolactone/hydroxyapatite scaffolds for dentistry applications". Paper presented in Department of Physics of the University of Coimbra, 2017.
Journal article	Silva, A. Sofia; Santo, Lúcia F.; Mendes, Maria C.; Mano, Joao F.. Corresponding author: Mano, Joao F.. "Multi-layer pre-vascularized magnetic cell sheets for bone regeneration". Biomaterials 231 (2020): 119664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.119664. 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.119664
Thesis / Dissertation	Mendes, Maria. "Sterilization methods versus cell adhesion for scaffolds in Dentistry applications". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, 2017.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2021/11/15	Engineering a magnetoenzimatic microcarrier system to design channel-like topographies for future bone repair	6th World Congress 2021 Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS2021) Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/05/13 - Current	CRS Young Scientists Back To Basics - Adobe Illustrator Workshop	CRS Young Scientists Back To Basics - Adobe Illustrator
2020/04/20 - Current	Third-annual Biofabrication Workshop Workshop	2020 Biofabrication Workshop Rice University, United States
2020/01/09 - Current	Business Models for Innovative Care for Older People Course Other	Business Models for Innovative Care for Older People Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2016/09/01 - 2019/07/29	English language course in Cambridge School, Porto, Portugal [First Certificate]
2019/01/07 - 2019/01/25	Advanced Course in Biostatistics applied to Health Sciences	Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
2018/06/03 - 2018/07/03	Cell Culture Lab training	Biomaterials Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Portugal
2018/06/06 - 2018/06/08	Gene2Skin Summer School”,	Biomaterials Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Portugal
2018/06/03 - 2018/06/06	Chem2Nature Summer School	Biomaterials Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Portugal
2018/04/24 - 2018/05/24	Advanced course in Biomaterials. Conference	Biomaterials, del concepto a la clínica (3ª edición), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Universidade de Vigo, Spain
2014/09/15 - 2016/07/25	German Language Course at Faculty of Letters of University of Coimbra (A2)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013/12/01 - 2014/11/30	Volunteer work named “Aprender a brincar” at Pediatric Hospital of Coimbra, Portugal. The main purpose of this work was to promote science among the children, letting them participate in interactive and didactic small physics experiments.