Rita Caridade Silva (F51E-0A89-D85B)

Curriculum Vitae

Rita Caridade Silva

Rita Caridade Silva is a PhD candidate in Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), where her research focuses on developing innovative therapeutic strategies for Parkinson's Disease (PD). Her doctoral project, "Repurposing Multimodal Strategies for Parkinson's Disease: Creating the Path for Disease Delay and Repair", funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), began in January 2023. She holds a degree in Applied Biology from the University of Minho (2019) and a Master's in Health Sciences from the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho (2021). Her early training bridged oncology and neuroscience: her bachelor's internship at ICVS examined the biological effects of RKIP expression in lung adenocarcinoma, while her graduate work focused on neurodegeneration. Together, these experiences gave her a broad, multidisciplinary technical foundation — from cell culture, Western blotting, and cell viability, proliferation, and migration assays to in vivo models of neurodegeneration (FELASA category C certified). Her Master's dissertation, "Combining Stem Cells Secretome (SCS) and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) to Parkinson's Disease modelling and repair," was supervised by Dr Fábio Teixeira and Dr António Salgado. This work identified NAC as a modulator of brain repair, capable of promoting neuroprotection and preserving dopaminergic integrity, and formed the basis for her first published results. Building on this, she joined Dr Fábio Teixeira's group as a research fellow in 2022 on the project "Focused Ultrasound combined with Stem Cells Secretome and Pharmacotherapies: establishing a Multimodal path for Parkinson's disease repair." During this period, she completed a four-month rotation at NeuroSpin (France), acquiring expertise in MRI-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) and combined drug-delivery techniques for PD. A pivotal milestone in her development was an 11-month research stay at the University of Oxford in 2025. Working within the Wade-Martins group under Dr Hugo Fernandes, she mastered complex human iPSC technology and established dopaminergic and cortical cultures, a crucial step in evaluating drug-repurposing strategies to halt PD progression. Through rigorous cell screening and tissue-culture techniques, the resulting data represent a significant advance for the field. Rita has authored five peer-reviewed publications, two as first author (a literature review and a results paper). She is a committed science communicator, having presented her work across a wide range of formats and audiences, from major international conferences, including AD/PD (oral presentation), ENCODS (poster award), IBRO, FENS, and Stem Cells in Neuroscience (Tübingen), to national meetings and pitch and poster sessions, where she has honed her ability to distil a complex research project into a clear, engaging message for specialist and general audiences. Her contributions have been recognised with the PAPRE Prize from the Porto Polytechnic Institute, a Travel Grant from the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN), and selection for a high-level ECNP workshop on applied neuroscience (France, 2025). Now in the final year of her PhD, she is eager to share the story behind her data and to continue contributing to the search for disease-modifying treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rita Caridade Silva
Date of birth: 1998/03/15
Gender: Female

Citation names

Caridade-Silva, Rita
Silva, Rita Caridade

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F51E-0A89-D85B
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4819-6359
Scopus Author Id: 57896788900

Email addresses

rcaridade@i3s.up.pt (Professional)
ritacaridade@hotmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, 4200-135 , Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2025/01 - 2026/05 Concluded	Departmental Visiting PhD Student (Outros) University of Oxford Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, United Kingdom
2022/09/09 - 2026 Ongoing	Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2024/09/23 - 2024/09/26 Concluded	Introduction to Python and Machine Learning for the Biosciences (Outros) (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/12/04 - 2023/12/05 Concluded	Workshop on Scientific Writing: How to streamline the process of writing a scientific paper (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/11/06 - 2023/11/08 Concluded	3D microscopy imaging with clearness \| 1st edition (Outros) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/06 - 2023/06 Concluded	Laboratory Rotation (Outros) Major in Neuroimaging and Neurodegenerative disorders Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives NeuroSpin, France	18
2022/09/26 - 2022/09/30 Concluded	Introduction to Digital BioImage Analysis \| 4th Edition (Outros) Major in Digital BioImage Analysis Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/07 Concluded	Specialized Training Course in Fundamentals for Scientific Research (Outros) Universidade do Minho, Portugal	Approved
2019/09/11 - 2021/11/01 Concluded	Master in Health Sciences (Mestrado) Major in Neurosciences Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal Laboratório Associado ICVS 3B's, Portugal "Combining Stem Cells Secretome and N-acetylcysteine to Parkinson's Disease modeling and repair" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Thesis: 19; Master's degree: 18 (ou of 20)
2019/11 - 2020/05 Concluded	Laboratory Rotation (Outros) Major in Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapies Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal	16
2020/02/10 - 2020/02/28 Concluded	Advanced training: Being a Bio-Entrepreneur (Outros) Major in Bioentrepreneurship Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal	17
2020/01/27 - 2020/02/07 Concluded	Laboratory Animal Science (Outros) Major in Animals Science Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal	17
2016/09/19 - 2019/07/05 Concluded	Applied Biology (Licenciatura) Major in Life sciences Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal "Biological effect of RKIP expression in lung cancer cell lines" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/01/20 - 2022/12/31	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/09/25 - 2025/07/31	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Portugal
	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022 - Current	Acreditação da Direcção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária (DGAV) como pessoa competente (investigador) para uso de animais.	Direcção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, Portugal

2023/05/08 - 2023/08/10	Internship	Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives NeuroSpin, France
	Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives NeuroSpin, France

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/01/01 - Current	Repurposing multimodal strategies for Parkinson’s Disease: creating the path for disease delay and repair? 2022.13323.BD PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023 - Current	Será o Oxigénio juntamente com antidepressivos multimodais um caminho para mitigar a progressão e deterioração da doença de Parkinson? 2023.14158.PEX Researcher Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Domingues, Helena Sofia; Salgado, António José; Teixeira, Fábio Gabriel; Araújo, Bruna; Domingues, Helena S. "Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretome: A Potential Biopharmaceutical Component to Regenerative Medicine?". In Handbook of Stem Cell, edited by Prof Kh H Haider. Portugal: Springer Nature, 2022. Published • 10.1007/978-981-16-6016-0_46-1
Book review	Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Martins-Macedo, Joana; Gomes, Eduardo D; Monteiro, Susana; Teixeira, Fábio G. "Neuroinflammation and Parkinson's Disease-From Neurodegeneration to Therapeutic Opportunities". (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11182908. Published • doi.org/10.3390/cells11182908
Conference abstract	Caridade-Silva, Rita; Bruna Alexandra Vale Araújo; Vilaça- Ferreira, AC.; Catarina Correia Teixeira; Martins-Macedo, J; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Eduardo Gomes; et al. "Focused Neuroprotection in Parkinson's Disease: Effects of N-Acetylcysteine and MRI-guided Ultrasound Neuromodulation". Paper presented in The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Workshop on Applied Neuroscience, Nice, 2025. Published Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Campos, Jonas; Domingues, Helena S.; Salgado, António José; Teixeira, Fábio G. "N-acetylcysteine as a Parkinson's disease therapy: creating a strategy for disease modeling and repair". Paper presented in International conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease and related neurological disorders, Barcelona, 2022.
Conference poster	Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Teixeira, Catarina; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Lievens, Victoria; Neri, Lorenzo; Almutairi, Hanouf; et al. Corresponding author: Teixeira, Fábio G. "N-Acetylcysteine and Felodipine Significantly Ameliorate Neuronal Dysfunction and Degeneration in iPSC-Derived Parkinson’s Disease Models.". Paper presented in Frontiers in Ageing Biology – Mini Symposium, SPB \| PAGE Coimbra'26, 2026. Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Teixeira, Catarina; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Lievens; Neri; Almutairi; et al. Corresponding author: Teixeira, Fábio G. "iPSC-Based Modelling of Parkinson’s Disease Highlights Neuroprotective Roles of N-Acetylcysteine and Felodipine". Paper presented in Stem Cells in Neuroscience 2026 - Tübingen, 2026. Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Ana Catarina Coutinho Vilaça Ferreira; Cristiana Andreia Sousa VileIa; Joana Martins-Macedo; Teixeira, Catarina; Soares-Guedes, Carla; et al. "The Synergy of Dopaminergic System and Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in a Pre-Clinical Model of Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in FENS Regional Meeting 2025, 2025. Teixeira, Catarina; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Carla Soares-Guedes; Falcão-Pires, Inês; Alencastre, Inês; Teixeira, Fábio G. "BEYOND THE BRAIN: THE HIDDEN ROLE OF CARDIORENAL DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE". Paper presented in FENS Regional Meeting 2025, 2025. Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Ana Catarina Coutinho Vilaça Ferreira; Cristiana Andreia Sousa VileIa; Joana Catarina Martins Macedo; Teixeira, Catarina; Soares-Guedes, Carla; et al. "Interplay Between Dopaminergic Innervation and Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in a 6-OHDA Preclinical Model of Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in XIX Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience., 2025. Teixeira, Catarina; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Carla Soares-Guedes; Falcão-Pires, Inês; Alencastre, Inês; Teixeira, Fábio G. "Breaking Boundaries: Exploring the Cardiorenal Influence on Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in XIX Meeting of Portuguese Society For Neurosciences, 2025. Teixeira, Catarina; Araújo, Bruna; Joana Catarina Martins Macedo; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Carla Soares-Guedes; Eduardo Gomes; Vilela, Cristiana; et al. "Uncovering the impact of cardiorenal abnormalities in the dopaminergic innervation of a ZSF1 animal model". Paper presented in 11th i3S Annual Meeting, 2024. Soares-Guedes, Carla; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Bruna Alexandra Vale Araújo; Catarina Correia Teixeira; Joana Catarina Martins Macedo; Vilela, Cristiana; Eduardo Gomes; et al. "PD-FOCUS - Transient Blood-Brain Barrier permeabilization by Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided Focused Ultrasound: can we create a path for an early Parkinson’s Disease modulation?". Paper presented in Annual Meeting 2024 I TBIO, 2024. Vilela, Cristiana; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Teixeira, Catarina; Martins-Macedo, J; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Gomes, Eduardo D.; et al. Corresponding author: Teixeira, Fábio G. "Modulating Microbiome with N-acetylcysteine: Unveiling New Therapeutic Paths for Parkinson's Disease,". Paper presented in TBIO Annual Meeting 2024, 2024. Vilela, Cristiana; Martins-Macedo, J; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Teixeira, Catarina; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Prudêncio, Cristina; et al. Corresponding author: Gomes, Eduardo D.. "The 3D View of the Gut-Brain Axis: Unraveling the Links Between Obesity, Microbiota, and Parkinson's Disease Pathogenesis". Paper presented in TBIO Annual Meeting, 2024. Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Ana Catarina Coutinho Vilaça Ferreira; Cristiana Andreia Sousa VileIa; Joana Catarina Martins Macedo; Teixeira, Catarina; Soares-Guedes, Carla; et al. "Impact of Hippocampal Cytogenesis Abrogation in the neurodegeneration process of Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in 7th PhDay: From Theory to Application - Research in Action!, 2024. Vilela, Cristiana; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Teixeira, Catarina; Gomes, Eduardo D.; Vieira, Mónica; Teixeira, Fábio G. Corresponding author: Teixeira, Fábio G. "N-acetylcysteine as a modulator of Microbiome levels: A New Aproach For Parkinson’s Disease Treatment?". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2024 - Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia, 2024. Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Svenningsson, Per; Ana Catarina Coutinho Vilaça Ferreira; Joana Catarina Martins Macedo; Teixeira, Catarina; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Luísa Pinto; Teixeira, Fábio Gabriel. "Behavior and Cellular Alterations in a Pre-Clinical Model of Parkinson’s Disease with Abrogated Adult Hippocampal Cytogenesis". Paper presented in FENS Forum 2024 \| International Neuroscience Conference 2024, 2024. Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Svenningsson, Per; Pinto, Luisa; Teixeira, Fábio Gabriel. "Impact of Abrogation of Adult Hippocampal Cytogenesis on Parkinson's Disease Pre-clinical Model". Paper presented in International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases and related neurological disorders 2024, 2024. Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Vilaça- Ferreira, AC.; Fernandes, Hugo; Wade-Martins, Richard; Teixeira, Fábio G. "Multi-targeted strategies to arrest Parkinson’s Disease: the utility of repurposing drugs for neuroprotective approaches". Paper presented in International conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease and related neurological disorders (2024), 2024. Caridade-Silva, Rita; Bruna Alexandra Vale Araújo; Ana Catarina Coutinho Vilaça Ferreira; Catarina Correia Teixeira; Martins-Macedo, J; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Fernandes, Hugo; Wade-Martins, Richard; Fábio Gabriel Rodrigues Teixeira. "Assessing the Therapeutic Impact of a 7-Day N-Acetylcysteine Treatment in a Preclinical Model of Parkinson's Disease: Behavioral and Molecular Insights". Paper presented in 7th PhDay: From Theory to Application - Research in Action!, 2024. Caridade-Silva, Rita; Bruna Alexandra Vale Araújo; Ana Catarina Coutinho Vilaça Ferreira; Catarina Correia Teixeira; Martins-Macedo, J; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Fernandes, Hugo; Wade-Martins, Richard; Fábio Gabriel Rodrigues Teixeira. "Assessing the Therapeutic Impact of a 7-Day N-Acetylcysteine Treatment in a Preclinical Model of Parkinson's Disease: Behavioral and Molecular Insights". Paper presented in FENS Forum 2024 \| International Neuroscience Conference \| Austria, 2024. Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Hugo JR Fernandes; Wade-Martins, Richard. "Repurposing Multimodal Strategies for Parkinson’s Disease: Creating the Path for Disease Delay and Repair?". Paper presented in Brilliant PhDs, brighter future: Shaping Science together! (PhDay 2023), 2023. Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Svenningsson, Per; Luísa Pinto; Fábio G. Teixeira. "Modulation of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis by Antidepressants May Aid the Prevention of Parkinson's Disease". Paper presented in Brilliant PhDs, brighter future: Shaping Science together! (PhDay 2023), 2023. Araújo, Bruna; Joana Catarina Martins Macedo; Silveira-Rosa, Tiago; Patrícia Carvalho Patrício; Loureiro-Campos, Eduardo (EF11-B5BA-1D82; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Teixeira, Fábio Gabriel; et al. "Hilus, a new cytogenic hippocampal niche modulated by stress exposure and treatment with antidepressants". Paper presented in 11th IBRO - World Congress of Neuroscience 2023, 2023. Araújo, Bruna; Campos, Jonas; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Mendes-Pinheiro, Bárbara; Marques, Cláudia Raquel; Barata-Antunes, Sandra; Lima, Rui; et al. "Modulation of Brain Connectivity, Structure, and Motor Function by Safinamide Multimodal Actions in a Pre-clinical Model of Parkinson’s Disease". Paper presented in 11th IBRO - World Congress of Neuroscience 2023, 2023. Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Martins-Macedo, Joana; Larrat, Benoit; Meriaux, Sebastien; Teixeira, Fábio G. "Impact of N-acetylcysteine on Parkinson's Disease Functional Connectomics: A Friend or Foe?". Paper presented in 11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience 2023, 2023. Araújo, Bruna; Campos, Jonas; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Mendes-Pinheiro, Bárbara; Marques, Cláudia Raquel ; Barata-Antunes, Sandra; Rui Augusto Ribeiro Lima; et al. "Modulation of Brain Structure and Motor Function by Safinamide Multimodal Actions in a Pre-clinical Model of Parkinson's Disease". Paper presented in FENS Regional Meeting 2023, 2023. Araújo, Bruna; Campos, Jonas; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Domingues, Helena Sofia; Mendes-Pinheiro, Bárbara; Marques, Cláudia Raquel ; Barata-Antunes, Sandra; et al. "Addressing the Impact of Safinamide as a Parkinson's Disease Neuroprotective Drug". Paper presented in International conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease and related neurological disorders (2022), 2022. Araújo, Bruna; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Magalhães, Ricardo; Larrat, Benoit; Meriaux, Sebastien; Pêgo, Ana Paula; Teixeira, Fábio Gabriel. "Targetting Parkinson's Disease Brain Affected Areas by the local delivery of multimodal pharmacological strategies". Paper presented in European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS), 2021.
Journal article	Araújo, Bruna; Martins-Macedo, J; Patrício, P; Silveira-Rosa, Tiago; Neves, Francisco; Campos, Eduardo; Caridade-Silva, Rita; et al. "Unveiling a Novel Cytogenic Niche in the Dentate Gyrus: Dissecting Newborn Cells Responses to Stress and Antidepressant Treatment". Neuropsychopharmacology (2026): Submitted Teixeira, Catarina; Martins-Macedo, Joana; Gomes, Eduardo; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Vilela, Cristiana; et al. "From peripheral to central (Neuro)degeneration: Is heart-kidney a new axial paradigm for Parkinson’s disease?". Brain Organoid and Systems Neuroscience Journal 2 (2024): 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bosn.2024.11.003. 10.1016/j.bosn.2024.11.003 Vilela, Cristiana; Araújo, Bruna; Soares-Guedes, Carla; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Martins-Macedo, Joana; Teixeira, Catarina; Gomes, Eduardo D.; et al. "From the Gut to the Brain: Is Microbiota a New Paradigm in Parkinson’s Disease Treatment?". Cells 13 9 (2024): 770. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells13090770. 10.3390/cells13090770 Araújo, Bruna; Campos, Jonas; Caridade-Silva, Rita; Mendes-Pinheiro, Bárbara; Marques, Raquel; Barata, Sandra; Lima, Rui; et al. "MODULATION OF BRAIN CONNECTIVITY, STRUCTURE, NEURON AND GLIA, AND MOTOR FUNCTION BY SAFINAMIDE MULTIMODAL ACTIONS IN A PRE-CLINICAL MODEL OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE". IBRO Neuroscience Reports 15 (2023): S212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibneur.2023.08.337. 10.1016/j.ibneur.2023.08.337 Caridade-Silva, Rita; Araújo, Bruna; Martins-Macedo, Joana; Fábio Gabriel Rodrigues Teixeira. "N-Acetylcysteine Treatment May Compensate Motor Impairments through Dopaminergic Transmission Modulation in a Striatal 6-Hydroxydopamine Parkinson's Disease Rat Model". Antioxidants 12 6 (2023): 1257. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox12061257. Published • 10.3390/antiox12061257 Silva, Rita Caridade; Domingues, Helena Sofia; Salgado, António José; Teixeira, Fábio Gabriel. "From regenerative strategies to pharmacological approaches: can we fine-tune treatment for Parkinson's disease?". Neural Regeneration Research 17 5 (2021): 933-936. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.324827. Open access • Published • 10.4103/1673-5374.324827
Preprint	Cristiana Vilela; Bruna Araújo; Carla Soares-Guedes; Rita Caridade-Silva; Joana Martins-Macedo; Catarina Teixeira; Eduardo D Gomes; et al. "From the Gut to the Brain: Is Microbiome a New Paradigm in Parkinson’s Disease Treatment?". 2024. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.1341.v1. 10.20944/preprints202404.1341.v1
Thesis / Dissertation	Rita Caridade Silva; Bruna Araújo; Jonas Campos; Helena S. Domingues; António J. Salgado; Fábio G. Teixeira; Caridade-Silva, Rita; et al. "Combining Stem Cells Secretome and N-acetylcysteine to Parkinson's Disease modeling and repair". Master, Universidade do Minho Escola de Medicina, 2021.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2026/06/22	N-Acetylcysteine and Felodipine Significantly Ameliorate Neuronal Dysfunction and Degeneration in iPSC-Derived Parkinson’s Disease Models.	Frontiers in Ageing Biology – Mini Symposium, SPB \| PAGE Coimbra'26 Portuguese Aging Research Group (PAGE) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/10/04	Poster pitch "Repurposing Multimodal Strategies for Parkinson’s Disease: Creating the Path for Disease Delay and Repair"	Brilliant PhDs, brighter future: Shaping Science together! (PhDay 2023) Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, 4200-135 , Porto, Porto, Portugal (Porto, Portugal)
2022/03/20	N-acetylcysteine as a Parkinson's disease therapy: creating a strategy for disease modeling and repair	International conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease and related neurological disorders (Barcelona, Spain)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Scientific Poster Presentation 7th PhDay Conference	7th PhDay: From Theory to Application - Research in Action! Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2024 - Current	Scientific Poster Presentation FENS Forum 2024 Conference	FENS Forum 2024 \| International Neuroscience Conference \| Austria Federation of European Neuroscience Societies, Belgium
2026/02/25 - 2026/02/27	Scientific Poster Presentation Stem Cells in Neuroscience 2026 - Tübingen Conference	Stem Cells in Neuroscience 2026 - Tübingen
2025/03 - 2025/03	Scientific Poster Presentation ECNP Workshop on Applied Neuroscience Workshop	The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Workshop on Applied Neuroscience The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Netherlands
2024/04/05 - 2024/04/05	VIII Symposium of the PT Glia Network Symposium	VIII Symposium of the PT Glia Network
2024 - 2024	Scientific Poster Presentation AD/PD 2024 Conference	International conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease and related neurological disorders , Lisbon
2023/10/03 - 2023/10/04	Scientific Poster Presentation PhDay 2023 Meeting	Brilliant PhDs, brighter future: Shaping Science together! (PhDay 2023) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal
2023/09/09 - 2023/09/13	Scientific Poster Presentation 11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience 2023 Congress	11th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience 2023 International Brain Research Organization, France Sociedad Española de Neurociencia, Spain
2022/10/18 - 2022/10/18	VI Symposium of the Portuguese Glial Network Symposium	VI Symposium of Portuguese Glial Network
2021/06/04 - 2021/06/06	Scientific Poster Presentation (ENCODS) Conference	European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS) 2021
2018/02 - 2018/02	XIX Applied Biology Meeting Meeting	XIX Applied Biology Meeting
2017/02 - 2017/02	XVIII Applied Biology Meeting Meeting	XVIII Applied Biology Meeting

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024 - Current	Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN)

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2019/03/11 - 2019/03/15	I Science' Journeys Member	Universidade do Minho Escola de Ciências, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/02 - Current	Biochemistry, Pharmacy degree, ESS/P.Porto	Biochemistry (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Portugal
2024 - Current	Biochemistry, Degree in Cultures and Laboratoty Maintenance Degree, ESS/P.Porto	Biochemistry (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2025/07	Biochemistry, Degree in Health Products and Food Supplements, ESS/P.Porto	Biochemistry (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Portugal
2023/09 - 2025/07	Applied Biochemistry, Degree in Radioactive Material in a Biomedical Context, ESS/P.Porto	Applied Biochemistry (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional)	Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2025	Selected Participant \| Competitively chosen to attend a high-level international workshop on applied neuroscience. European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Netherlands
2024	Travel Grant to attend the FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Vienna, Austria
2023	PAPRE (Programme of Support for Publication in High Quality Scientific Journals) Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
2021	Scientific Poster Presentation European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS), United Kingdom