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Claudio Franco. Concluiu o(a) Doutoramento em Structure, Fonction and Engeneering of Proteins em 2008 pelo(a) Université Paris Diderot e Licenciatura em Biochemistry - Branch of Applied Biochemistry em 2004 pelo(a) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências. É Diretor da Unidade de Morfogénese Vascular no(a) Instituto de Medicina Molecular. Publicou 31 artigos em revistas especializadas. Recebeu 7 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens. Participa e/ou participou como Investigador em 2 projeto(s) e Investigador responsável em 6 projeto(s). Atua na(s) área(s) de Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia Celular, Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biologia Molecular, Ciências Naturais com ênfase em Ciências Biológicas com ênfase em Biofísica e Ciências Médicas e da Saúde com ênfase em Medicina Clínica com ênfase em Sistemas Cardíacos e Cardiovasculares. Nas suas atividades profissionais interagiu com 240 colaborador(es) em coautorias de trabalhos científicos.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Claudio Franco

Citation names

  • Franco, Claudio A.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F012-B7D6-AE72
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2861-3883
Google Scholar ID
exzvXzwAAAAJ
Researcher Id
D-8117-2015
Scopus Author Id
24280736600

Email addresses

  • cfranco@ucp.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, 1649-023, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2008
Concluded
 Structure, Fonction and Engeneering of Proteins (Doutoramento)
Université Paris Diderot, France
"Fonction of the Serum Response Factor in endothelial cells (Rôle du facteur de réponse au sérum dans les cellules endothéliales)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 With Honours
2004
Concluded
 Biochemistry - Branch of Applied Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Campus Sintra, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2022/08/31 Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Organic Unit Sub-director Universidade Católica Portuguesa Campus Sintra, Portugal
Católica Biomedical Research Centre, Portugal
2022/07/01 - Current Vice-President European Vascular Biology Organization, Netherlands
2022/01/01 - Current Vice-President Sociedade Portuguesa de Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2022/01/01 - Current Member of the Catalyst Program The EMBO Journal, Germany
2021/06/01 - Current Board of Directors European Vascular Biology Organization, Netherlands
2020/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Board of Directors Sociedade Portuguesa de Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/12/01 - 2022/08/31 Diretor da Unidade de Morfogénese Vascular Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2009/01/05 - 2013/11/30 Post-doctoral position at the Dr. Holger Gerhardt laboratory. Main research was focus on the mechanisms regulating blood vessel patterning. London Research Institute - Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom
2004/10/01 - 2008/12/16 PhD student in the Dr. Zhenlin laboratory at the UMR/CNRS Unit 7079. PhD thesis studying the function of the transcription factor Serum Response Factor in endothelial cells. Sorbonne Université Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, France
2008/03/01 - 2008/08/31 ERASMUS internship, integrated in the MSc Biochemistry degree, at Prof. Denise Paulin laboratory. The focus of my project was studying the function of serum response factor in smooth muscle cells in a Université Paris Diderot, France
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013/12/01 - 2018/11/30 Mechanisms of endothelial cell motility and invasion in vascular network formation.
IF/00412/2012/CP0163/CT0007
Provided by PTCRIS: 147477
Principal investigator
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/05 - 2015/06 Decrypting SRF/MRTF-regulated transcriptome in endothelial tip cells
Provided by PTCRIS: 135283
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/09/01 - 2027/08/31 Partnership for Excellence on Lymph-Angiocrine Signaling in Ischemic Disorders - PLASID
101159643
Principal investigator
Ongoing
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 Controlo do tráfico de proteínas em fisiologia e patologia vascular
2022.09228.PTDC
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
LA/P/0082/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0082/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/12/01 - 2025/11/30 Endothelial Cells as rheostats for Age-Related Diseases
HR22-00551
Principal investigator
Fundação 'la Caixa'
Ongoing
2021/10/01 - 2024/09/30 Mecanismos de arteriogénese dependentes da migração endotelial
PTDC/MED-ANM/7695/2020
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal

Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento da Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/04/01 - 2023/09/30 Estudo da dinâmica do pericito durante o desenvolvimento vascular
EXPL/MED-ANM/1616/2021
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/04/01 - 2023/03/31 Arterial flow as attractor for endothelial cell migration – a new concept in vascular malformation and stroke regeneration
17CVD03
Researcher
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 Fondation Leducq
Ongoing
2018/11/01 - 2022/10/31 Building a 3D innervated and irrigated muscle on a chip.
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/801423/EU
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2022/03/31 Inibição da Heterogeneidade Intra-Tumoral como uma estratégia promissora no tratamento do cancro
PTDC/MED-ONC/28660/2017
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/09/01 - 2022/02/28 PRINCIPLES OF AXIAL POLARITY-DRIVEN VASCULAR PATTERNING
679368
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/679368/EU
Principal investigator
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2018/08/09 - 2021/11/08 Posicionamento do núcleo das células musculares esqueléticas
PTDC/BIA-CEL/31075/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Deregulated Endothelial Blood Flow Response as a cause of Diabetic Retinopathy.
PTDC/MED-PAT/31639/2017
Researcher
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2021/09/30 Identify the mechanisms of endothelial tip cell invasive behavior in order to inhibit physiological and pathological sprouting angiogenesis
PTDC/BIA-CEL/32180/2017
Principal investigator
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/12/01 - 2021/01/31 Promoção do avanço significativo do conhecimento na área de medicina de precisão e sua translação para benefício da sociedade
SAICTPAC/0021/2015
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019/03/01 - 2020/08/31 Selective retention of VEGF for cancer and retinopathies therapeutics
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme/825508/EU
Principal investigator
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Instituto de Medicina Molecular - IMM
UID/BIM/50005/2019
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/04/12 - 2019/09/30 PRECISE-Accelerating progress toward the new era of precision medicine
SAICTPAC/0021/2015
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015/01/01 - 2018/12/31 Towards outstanding research and training in tumour biology at IMM
692322
Principal investigator
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation
Concluded
2013/05/01 - 2014/06/30 Decrypting SRF/MRTF-regulated transcriptome in endothelial tip cells.
EXPL/BEX-BCM/2258/2013
Principal investigator
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2019/03/01 - 2025/02/28 RUSHing out pathological angiogenesis
CEECIND/04251/2017
Supervisor
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Narotamo, H.; Ouarné, M.; Franco, C.A.; Silveira, M.. "Synthetic Generation of 3D Microscopy Images using Generative Adversarial Networks". 2022.
    10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871631
  2. Narotamo, Hemaxi; Ouarne, Marie; Franco, Claudio Areias; Silveira, Margarida. "Joint Segmentation and Pairing of Nuclei and Golgi in 3D Microscopy Images". 2021.
    10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630362
Conference poster
  1. Pereira da Silva, Sara; De Niz, Mariana; Serre, Karine; Ouarné, Marie; Franco, Claudio A.; Figueiredo, Luisa M.. "Trypanosome sequestration and immune response drive acute cerebral disease.". Paper presented in Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting., 2022.
  2. Figueiredo, Luisa M.; De Niz M; Franco, Claudio; Bras Pedro M. "In vivo imaging reveals that establishment of tissue reservoirs by Trypanosoma brucei is multi-factorial. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA". Paper presented in 31st Molecular Parasitology Meeting, 2020.
Journal article
  1. Hemaxi Narotamo; Cláudio A. Franco; Margarida Silveira. "3DCellPol: Joint detection and pairing of cell structures to compute cell polarity". Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2025.107537.
    10.1016/j.bspc.2025.107537
  2. Catarina Sequeira; Lou Martha Wackerbarth; Andreia Pena; Mafalda Sá-Pereira; Cláudio A. Franco; Edgar R. Gomes. "Myonuclear position and blood vessel organization during skeletal muscle postnatal development". Development (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.202548.
    10.1242/dev.202548
  3. Narotamo, Hemaxi; Silveira, Margarida; Franco, Cláudio A.. "3DVascNet: An Automated Software for Segmentation and Quantification of Mouse Vascular Networks in 3D". Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/atvbaha.124.320672.
    10.1161/atvbaha.124.320672
  4. Catarina Gonçalves Fonseca; Vânia Silvério; David Barata; Wolfgang Giese; Holger Gerhardt; Susana Cardoso; Claudio Areias Franco. "A 96-wells fluidic system for high-throughput screenings under laminar high wall shear stress conditions". Microsystems & Nanoengineering (2023): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41378-023-00589-x.
    10.1038/s41378-023-00589-x
  5. Marta F Fidalgo; Catarina G Fonseca; Paulo Caldas; Alexandre ASF Raposo; Tania Balboni; Lenka Henao-Mišíková; Ana R Grosso; Francisca F Vasconcelos; Cláudio A Franco. "Aerocyte specification and lung adaptation to breathing is dependent on alternative splicing changes". Life Science Alliance (2022): https://doi.org/10.26508/lsa.202201554.
    10.26508/lsa.202201554
  6. Sara Silva Pereira; Mariana De Niz; Karine Serre; Marie Ouarné; Joana E Coelho; Cláudio A Franco; Luisa M Figueiredo. "Immunopathology and Trypanosoma congolense parasite sequestration cause acute cerebral trypanosomiasis". eLife 11 (2022): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77440.
    10.7554/eLife.77440
  7. Cátia Silva Janota; Andreia Pinto; Anna Pezzarossa; Pedro Machado; Judite Costa; Pedro Campinho; Cláudio A. Franco; Edgar R. Gomes. "Shielding of actin by the endoplasmic reticulum impacts nuclear positioning". Nature Communications (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30388-3.
    10.1038/s41467-022-30388-3
  8. Barbacena, P.; Dominguez-Cejudo, M.; Fonseca, C.G.; Gómez-González, M.; Faure, L.M.; Zarkada, G.; Pena, A.; et al. "Competition for endothelial cell polarity drives vascular morphogenesis in the mouse retina". Developmental Cell 57 19 (2022): 2321-2333.e9. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85139362088&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Under revision • 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.09.002
  9. Jin, Y.; Ding, Y.; Richards, M.; Kaakinen, M.; Giese, W.; Baumann, E.; Szymborska, A.; et al. "Tyrosine-protein kinase Yes controls endothelial junctional plasticity and barrier integrity by regulating VE-cadherin phosphorylation and endocytosis". Nature Cardiovascular Research 1 12 (2022): 1156-1173. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85161153971&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/s44161-022-00172-z
  10. Park, Hyojin; Furtado, Jessica; Poulet, Mathilde; Chung, Minhwan; Yun, Sanguk; Lee, Sungwoon; Sessa, William C.; et al. "Defective Flow-Migration Coupling Causes Arteriovenous Malformations in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia". Circulation 144 10 (2021): 805-822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.120.053047.
    10.1161/circulationaha.120.053047
  11. Savulescu, Anca F.; Brackin, Robyn; Bouilhol, Emmanuel; Dartigues, Benjamin; Warrell, Jonathan H.; Pimentel, Mafalda R.; Beaume, Nicolas; et al. "Interrogating RNA and protein spatial subcellular distribution in smFISH data with DypFISH". Cell Reports Methods 1 5 (2021): 100068. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2021.100068.
    10.1016/j.crmeth.2021.100068
  12. De Niz, Mariana; Brás, Daniela; Ouarné, Marie; Pedro, Mafalda; Nascimento, Ana M.; Henao Misikova, Lenka; Franco, Claudio A.; et al. "Organotypic endothelial adhesion molecules are key for Trypanosoma brucei tropism and virulence". Cell Reports 36 12 (2021): 109741. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109741.
    10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109741
  13. Ouarné, Marie; Pena, Andreia; Franco, Cláudio Areias. "From remodeling to quiescence: The transformation of the vascular network". Cells & Development (2021): 203735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cdev.2021.203735.
    10.1016/j.cdev.2021.203735
  14. Figueiredo, Ana Martins; Barbacena, Pedro; Russo, Ana; Vaccaro, Silvia; Ramalho, Daniela; Pena, Andreia; Lima, Aida Pires; et al. "Endothelial cell invasion is controlled by dactylopodia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 18 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023829118.
    10.1073/pnas.2023829118
  15. Pena, Andreia; Ouarné, Marie; Franco, Cláudio Areias. "Methods to quantify endothelial cell front-rear polarity in vivo and in vitro". Current Opinion in Hematology 28 3 (2021): 208-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/moh.0000000000000643.
    10.1097/moh.0000000000000643
  16. Fonseca, Catarina G; Barbacena, Pedro; Franco, Claudio A. "Endothelial cells on the move: dynamics in vascular morphogenesis and disease". Vascular Biology 2 1 (2020): H29-H43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/vb-20-0007.
    10.1530/vb-20-0007
  17. Figueiredo AM; Villacampa P; Diéguez-Hurtado R; José Lozano J; Kobialka P; Cortazar AR; Martinez-Romero A; et al. "Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase-Regulated Pericyte Maturation Governs Vascular Remodeling.". Circulation (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/32466671.
    10.1161/circulationaha.119.042354
  18. Lowell T. Edgar; Franco, Claudio; Miguel O. Bernabeu; Holger Gerhardt. "On the preservation of vessel bifurcations during flow-mediated angiogenic remodelling". PLoS Computational Biology (2020):
    Under revision • 10.1101/2020.02.07.938522
  19. Prahst C; Ashrafzadeh P; Mead T; Figueiredo A; Chang K; Richardson D; Venkaraman L; et al. "Mouse retinal cell behaviour in space and time using light sheet fluorescence microscopy.". eLife (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/32073398.
    10.7554/elife.49779
  20. Joana R Carvalho; Isabela C Fortunato; Catarina G Fonseca; Anna Pezzarossa; Pedro Barbacena; Maria A Dominguez-Cejudo; Francisca F Vasconcelos; et al. "Non-canonical Wnt signaling regulates junctional mechanocoupling during angiogenic collective cell migration". eLife 8 (2019): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45853.
    10.7554/eLife.45853
  21. Pedro Barbacena; Marie Ouarné; Jody J. Haigh; Francisca F. Vasconcelos; Anna Pezzarossa; Claudio A. Franco. "GNrep mouse: A reporter mouse for front–rear cell polarity". genesis (2019): https://doi.org/10.1002/dvg.23299.
    10.1002/dvg.23299
  22. Hendrikx, S.; Coso, S.; Prat-Luri, B.; Wetterwald, L.; Sabine, A.; Franco, C.A.; Nassiri, S.; et al. "Endothelial Calcineurin Signaling Restrains Metastatic Outgrowth by Regulating Bmp2". Cell Reports 26 5 (2019): 1227-1241.e6. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85060152728&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.celrep.2019.01.016
  23. Hikita, Takao; Mirzapourshafiyi, Fatemeh; Barbacena, Pedro; Riddell, Meghan; Pasha, Ayesha; Li, Mengnan; Kawamura, Takuji; et al. "PAR-3 controls endothelial planar polarity and vascular inflammation under laminar flow". EMBO reports 19 9 (2018): e45253. http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.201745253.
    10.15252/embr.201745253
  24. Bernabeu, Miguel O.; Jones, Martin L.; Nash, Rupert W.; Pezzarossa, Anna; Coveney, Peter V.; Gerhardt, Holger; Franco, Claudio A.. "PolNet: A Tool to Quantify Network-Level Cell Polarity and Blood Flow in Vascular Remodeling". Biophysical Journal 114 9 (2018): 2052-2058. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2018.03.032.
    10.1016/j.bpj.2018.03.032
  25. Filipa Neto; Alexandra Klaus-Bergmann; Yu Ting Ong; Silvanus Alt; Anne-Clémence Vion; Anna Szymborska; Joana R Carvalho; et al. "YAP and TAZ regulate adherens junction dynamics and endothelial cell distribution during vascular development". eLife 7 (2018): https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.31037.
    10.7554/eLife.31037
  26. Franco CA; Gerhardt H. "Morph or Move? How Distinct Endothelial Cell Responses to Blood Flow Shape Vascular Networks.". (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28633012.
    10.1016/j.devcel.2017.06.008
  27. Lu Y; Bernabeu MO; Lammer J; Cai CC; Jones ML; Franco CA; Aiello LP; Sun JK. "Computational fluid dynamics assisted characterization of parafoveal hemodynamics in normal and diabetic eyes using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28078170.
    10.1364/boe.7.004958
  28. Franco CA; Gerhardt H. "Blood flow boosts BMP signaling to keep vessels in shape.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27672213.
    10.1083/jcb.201609038
  29. Franco CA; Jones ML; Bernabeu MO; Vion AC; Barbacena P; Fan J; Mathivet T; et al. "Non-canonical Wnt signalling modulates the endothelial shear stress flow sensor in vascular remodelling.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26845523.
    10.7554/elife.07727
  30. Wilhelm K; Happel K; Eelen G; Schoors S; Oellerich MF; Lim R; Zimmermann B; et al. "FOXO1 couples metabolic activity and growth state in the vascular endothelium.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26735015.
    10.1038/nature16498
  31. Quetier, Ivan; Marshall, Jacqueline J. T.; Spencer-Dene, Bradley; Lachmann, Sylvie; Casamassima, Adele; Franco, Claudio; Escuin, Sarah; et al. "Knockout of the PKN Family of Rho Effector Kinases Reveals a Non-redundant Role for PKN2 in Developmental Mesoderm Expansion". Cell Reports 14 3 (2016): 440-448. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000368701600005&KeyUID=WOS:000368701600005.
    10.1016/j.celrep.2015.12.049
  32. Barbacena P; Carvalho JR; Franco CA. "Endothelial cell dynamics in vascular remodelling.". (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27802214.
    10.3233/ch-168006
  33. Franco CA; Jones ML; Bernabeu MO; Geudens I; Mathivet T; Rosa A; Lopes FM; et al. "Dynamic endothelial cell rearrangements drive developmental vessel regression.". (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25884288.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.1002125
  34. Aspalter IM; Gordon E; Dubrac A; Ragab A; Narloch J; Vizán P; Geudens I; et al. "Alk1 and Alk5 inhibition by Nrp1 controls vascular sprouting downstream of Notch.". (2015): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26081042.
    10.1038/ncomms8264
  35. Franco, C.A.; Jones, M.L.; Bernabeu, M.O.; Geudens, I.; Mathivet, T.; Rosa, A.; Lopes, F.M.; et al. "Correction: Dynamic Endothelial Cell Rearrangements Drive Developmental Vessel Regression (PLoS Biol, 2015)". PLoS Biology 13 5 (2015): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84955465552&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.1002163
  36. Bernabeu MO; Jones ML; Nielsen JH; Krüger T; Nash RW; Groen D; Schmieschek S; et al. "Computer simulations reveal complex distribution of haemodynamic forces in a mouse retina model of angiogenesis.". (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25079871.
    10.1098/rsif.2014.0543
  37. Bentley, K.; Franco, C.A.; Philippides, A.; Blanco, R.; Dierkes, M.; Gebala, V.; Stanchi, F.; et al. "The role of differential VE-cadherin dynamics in cell rearrangement during angiogenesis". Nature Cell Biology 16 4 (2014): 309-321. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84897536435&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1038/ncb2926
  38. Franco, Claudio A.; Blanc, Jocelyne; Parlakian, Ara; Blanco, Raquel; Aspalter, Irene M.; Kazakova, Natalia; Diguet, Nicolas; et al. "SRF selectively controls tip cell invasive behavior in angiogenesis". Development 140 11 (2013): 2321-2333. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000319043400008&KeyUID=WOS:000319043400008.
    10.1242/dev.091074
  39. Franco, Claudio; Gerhardt, Holger. "TISSUE ENGINEERING Blood vessels on a chip". Nature 488 7412 (2012): 465-466. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000307761600024&KeyUID=WOS:000307761600024.
    10.1038/488465a
  40. Fraccaroli, A.; Franco, C.A.; Rognoni, E.; Neto, F.; Rehberg, M.; Aszodi, A.; Wedlich-Söldner, R.; et al. "Visualization of Endothelial Actin Cytoskeleton in the Mouse Retina". PLoS ONE 7 10 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868159196&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0047488
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Preprint
  1. Ouarné, M.; Pena, A.; Ramalho, D.; Conchinha, N.V.; Costa, T.; Figueiredo, A.; Saraiva, M.P.; et al. "A non-genetic model of vascular shunts informs on the cellular mechanisms of formation and resolution of arteriovenous malformations". 2024. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85173894896&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1101/2023.08.21.554159

Intellectual property

Provisional application for patent
  1. 2019. "GNREP MOUSE: A TRANSGENIC REPORTER MOUSE LINE FOR FRONT-REAR CELL POLARITY".
    Disclosed

Other

Other output
  1. YES kinase controls endothelial junctional plasticity and barrier integrity by regulating VE-cadherin phosphorylation and endocytosis. 2022. Jin, Y.; Ding, Y.; Richards, M.; Kaakinen, M.; Szymborska, A.; Rosa, A.; Baumann, E.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85166892156&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-1196695/v1
  2. Cell Painting transfer increases screening hit rate. 2022. Cohen, E.; Corbe, M.; Franco, C.A.; Vasconcelos, F.F.; Perez, F.; Del Nery, E.; Bollot, G.; Genovesio, A.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85143686114&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1101/2022.10.24.513564
  3. Immunopathology and parasite sequestration cause severe cerebral trypanosomiasis in animals. 2021. Sara Silva Pereira; Mariana De Niz; Karine Serre; Marie Ouarné; Claudio A Franco; Luisa M Figueiredo. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1050698/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-1050698/v1
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020 How do endothelial cells invade into tissues? Seminário Interno
Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas (CEDOC)- Miguel Seabra (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020 Endothelial Cell Orienteering Quantitative Morphogenesis Seminar Interest Group
Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas (CEDOC) - Lara Carvalho (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05 Endothelial Cell Orienteering EMBO Workshop - Cell Polarity & Membrane Dynamics
EMBO (St. Feliu, Spain)
2019/04 Wnt5a regulates junctional mechanocoupling during angiogenic collective cell migration ESM-EVBO
European Society for Microcirculation (ESM) and European Vascular Biology Organization (EVBO) (Maastricht, Netherlands)
2019 Endothelial Cell Orienteering Seminário Interno
Institut Jacques Monod - Benoit Ladoux (Paris, France)
2019 Endothelial Cell Orienteering Seminário Interno
NIH - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) - Robert Adelstein (Bethesda, United States)
2018/12 Endothelial Cell Orienteering Symposia on Tumour Biology: from basic biology to disease
ReTuBi project (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/11 Endothelial Cell Orienteering Emerging Concepts in Cardiovascular Biology
CNIC (Madrid, Spain)
2018/09 Endothelial Cell Orienteering 10th International Kloster Seeon Meeting Angiogenesis
(Kloster Seeon, Germany)
2018/07 Biophysical and biochemical constrains in branching morphogenesis of blood vessels
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
2018/06 Endothelial Cell Orienteering International Vascular Biology Meeting - IVBM
(Helsinquia, Finland)
2018/03 Junctional forces and wall shear stress compete to coordinate collective cell polarity EMBL meeting: Tissue Self-Organization
(Heidelberg, Germany)
2018/01 Measuring collective cell behavior in angiogenesis 1st Spanish Workshop on Endothelium
(Madrid, Spain)
2018 Yin-Yang effects of non-canonical Wnt signaling in endothelial cell polarity Seminário Interno
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones cardiovascular (CNIC) - Rui Benedito (Madrid, Spain)
2018 Competing Interests in Vascular Morphogenesis Seminário Interno
Universidade de Uppsala - Lena Claesson-Welsh (Uppsala, Sweden)
2018 Competing Interests in Vascular Morphogenesis Seminário Interno
Hopital Georges Pompidou - Anne Eichmann (Paris, France)
2018 Endothelial Cell Orienteering Seminário Interno
The Francis Crick Institute - Katie Bentley (Londres, United Kingdom)
2017/12 Regulating collective behaviour in endothelial cells Seminário Interno
UC-Biotech - Lino Ferreira (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/06 Cell Migration Under Confinement Workshop
(Palmela, Portugal)
2017/04 Dinâmica das células endoteliais na formação da árvore vascular X Congresso da ENEBIOQ
(Braga, Portugal)
2017/03 Regulating endothelial collective cell behaviour in vascular morphogenesis SFB/TR23 Symposium
(Heidelberg, Germany)
2017 Pointing in the right direction: a tale of forces in vascular biology Seminário Interno
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes - Maria Mota (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Flow and Chemokines compete to establish the collective polarity Seminário Interno
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) - Holger Gerhardt (Berlim, Germany)
2017 Principles of blood vessel network organisation CAML Sessions - João Lacerda
Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/09 Regulating Collective Behaviour in Endothelial Cells Conference on Cancer Cell Migration in Space and Time
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/07 Regulating Endothelial Cell Behaviour in Vascular Morphogenesis 5th International Iberian Biophysics Congress
(Porto, Portugal)
2016/06 Regulating Endothelial Cell Behaviour in Vascular Morphogenesis 18th Conference ESCHM
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Cell Dynamics in Vascular Morphogenesis Seminário Interno
IST - Cláudia Lobato (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Forcing Endothelial Cells to Behave Collectively Seminário Interno
IFOM - Giorgio Scita (Milan)
2016 Regulating Collective Behaviour in Endothelial Cells Seminário Interno
CEDOC - António Jacinto (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Regulating Collective Behaviour in Endothelial Cells Seminário Interno
IBDM - Thomas Lecuit (Marseille, France)
2016 Endothelial Cell Dynamics in Vascular Morphogenesis Seminário Interno
FMUP - Ana Faria (Porto, Portugal)
2016 Endothelial Cell Dynamics in Vascular Morphogenesis Endothelial Cell Dynamics in Vascular Morphogenesis
Institut Curie - Danijela Vignejvic (Paris, France)
2016 Of Blood Flow Patterns, Endothelial Cell Polarization and Vascular Remodeling Seminário Interno
IGC - Ivo Telley (Oeiras, Portugal)
2015/04 Going against the flow: endothelial cell migration in vascular remodelling Mini-Simposium in Ocular Vessel Disease
IBILI (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015 Endothelial cell dynamics in Vascular Remodelling Seminário Interno
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)- Holger Gerhardt (Berlin, Germany)
2015 Endothelial cell dynamics in Angiogenesis Seminário Interno
CNC - Francisco Ambrósio (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015 Going against the flow: endothelial cell migration in vascular remodelling
Max Planck Institute (MPI)-Muenster - Ralf Adams (Muenster, Germany)
2015 Principles of polarity-driven vascular patterning DIA meeting
IGC - DIA meeting (Oeiras, Portugal)
2014/09 Of blood flow patterns, endothelial cell polarization and vessel regression in the mouse retina. 8th International Kloster Seeon Meeting Angiogenesis
(Kloster Seeon, Germany)
2014 Regulation of endothelial cell dynamics in vascular morphogenesis Seminário Interno
IDIBELL - Mariona Graupera (Barcelona, Spain)
2014 Regulation of endothelial cell dynamics in vascular morphogenesis Seminário Interno
IBILI - Francisco Ambrósio (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014 Wnt signalling and vascular patterning VBL Symposium: 10 years
Holger Gerhardt (Arholma, Sweden)
2014 Regulation of endothelial cell dynamics in vascular morphogenesis Seminário Interno
Karolinska Institute - Lars Jakobsson (Stockholm, Sweden)
2014 Regulation of endothelial cell dynamics in vascular morphogenesis Seminário Interno
Max Planck Institute - Michael Potente (Bad Nauheim)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2018/01/01 - Current Evaluating the contribution of endothelial-flow response in Diabetic Retinopathy
Supervisor
 Programa doutoral do Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2016 - Current Biomechanics of vascular remodelling
Supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Bioengenharia, Terapias Celulares e Medicina Regenerativa (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Mechanisms of hypoxia-independent angiogenesis
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2015 - 2019 Molecular mechanisms regulating endothelial cell axial polarity during vascular morphogenesis
Supervisor
 Programa doutoral Lisbon Biomedical and Clinical Research (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2014 - 2019 Force transmission and endothelial cell rearrangements during vascular remodelling
Supervisor
 Lisbon Biomedical and Clinical Research (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Unveiling mechanotransduction during collective cell migration
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 - 2016/11/18 3D visaulization of tissue specific vascular patterns for endothelial cell polarity analysis.
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2015 - 2016/06/15 Easy Embryonic Stem Cell: A new tool to manipulate gene expression in embryoid bodies.
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Portugal
2014 - 2015/11/24 Decrypting SRF/MRTF-regulated transcriptome in endothelial tip cells
Supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018 - Current Cell Migration Under Confinement Workshop (2018)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018 - Current Organizer of the Workshop on Advanced Light Microscopy (2018)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2017 - Current Cell Migration Under Confinement Workshop (2018)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2016 - Current Organizer of the Conference on Cancer Cell Migration in Space and Time (2016)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018 - 2018 Organizer of the Symposia on Tumour Biology: from basic biology to disease (2018)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018 - 2018 Organizer of the Biophysical Constraints and Evolutionary Cell Biology (2018)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Organizer of the Workshop on Advanced Light Microscopy (2016)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2019 PHOSPHOREGULATION OF THE DROSOPHILA TUMOR SUPPRESSOR LGL DURING THE CELL – CYCLE Sofia Moreira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019 Mechanisms of angiogenesis in development and disease Zoe Grant (PhD)
The University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, Australia
2018 Bevacizumab: more than an anti-angiogenic drug Cátia Alexandra Rebelo de Almeida (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 Characterization of tissue mechanics and cell cycle during wound healing: when software meets biology Telmo Ribeiro Ramos Pereira (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 Endothelial Notch ligands in bone marrow function and in malignancy Inês Sofia Alvarez Martins (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 Molecular mechanisms by which low doses of ionizing radiation promote neovascularization in ischemic tissues. Paula Alexandra Gomes de Oliveira (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 Glial cell-derived neuroregulators controls type 3 innate lymphoid cells and gut defence Bethania García Cassani (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2016 Positioning nuclei at the periphery of skeletal muscle cells William Roman (PhD)
Sorbonne Université Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, France
2014 : Role of PTEN in sprouting angiogenesis
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Helena Serra Busquet (PhD)
Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Spain
2014 The function of drosophila integrin adhesion complexes in pupal hemocyte migration in vivo Carolina Gois Almeida Moreira (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Histologia e Biologia do Desenvolvimento Mestrado Integrado em Medicina (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2017 - Current Aulas teóricas por convite da Professora Susana Freitas Diploma de Estudos Avançados em Engenharia Física Tecnológica Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2011 - Current Aulas teórico-práticas a alunos do 1º ano - “Introduction to Genetics” - focando nos tópicos de genética mendeliana, associações genéticas, segregação de cromossomas, mutações, e seleção natural. (Licenciatura) University College London Faculty of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
2016 - 2019 Aulas teóricas por convite da Professora Cláudia Lobato e Margarida Diogo. Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Biomédica (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Aulas teóricas por convite do Professor Francisco Ambrósio Mestrado Integrado Ciências da Visão (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2015 - 2018 Aulas teóricas Programa doutoral LisbonBioMed (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Aulas teóricas - Mecanismos de doença e medicina regenerativa Programa doutoral (ProRegeM) (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Aulas teóricas Programa doutoral do Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Doutoramento) Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
2012 - 2012 Aula teórica por convite no curso “Notch in vascular development and pathology” (Outros) INSERM, France

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018 - Current Journal of Visualized Experiments
2018 - Current Biomaterials (0142-9612) Elsevier
2018 - Current Microvascular Research (1095-9319) Elsevier
2018 - Current Nature Protocols (1754-2189) Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2018 - Current Ophtalmic Research
2018 - Current PLoS ONE (1932-6203) Public Library of Science
2017 - Current Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
2017 - Current Cell Reports
2017 - Current BMC Evolutionary Biology
2017 - Current Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
2017 - Current Cancer Research
2017 - Current Acta Medica Portuguesa
2017 - Current Development
2017 - Current eLife (2050-084X) "eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd."
2017 - Current Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2296-634X) Frontiers Media SA

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para o B2BB programme
2019 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para Prémios Pfizer - Investigação Básica
2019 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para GAPIC
2018 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para EU H2020 FETOPEN
2017 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para Fundação Portugal Ventures Portugal Ventures, Portugal
2017 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para ZonMW ZonMw, Netherlands
2016 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 - Current Revisor Ad hoc para Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia British Heart Foundation British Heart Foundation, United Kingdom
Distinctions

Other distinction

2019 Contrato Estimulo Emprego Cientifico 2018 - Principal Researcher - CEECIND/02589/2018
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 ERC Starting Grant
European Research Council, Belgium
2013 Investigador FCT Program
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2012 PostDoctoral Fellowship
Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom
2010 Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development
2009 PostDoctoral Fellowship
Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom
2007 PhD Fellowship
Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, France
2004 PhD Fellowship