Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Armanda Viana Rodrigues
Citation names
- Rodrigues, Armanda
- Rodrigues, Maria Armanda
- Armanda Viana Rodrigues
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- F713-B3A9-FAF1
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4261-3879
Email addresses
- armanda.rodrigues@ihmt.unl.pt (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Parasitology
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Immunology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Agrarian Sciences - Veterinary Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2024/05/20 - 2024/05/22
Concluded
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The Technology Transfer Process: Translating Extracellular RNA Research into the Market (Outros)
exRNA-PATH COST ACTION CA20110, United Kingdom
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N/A |
2011/10/01 - 2017/03/10
Concluded
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Doutoramento em Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento)
Major in Work supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT), with a PhD scholarship - SFRH / BD / 73386 / 2010. Authorship
of three scientific papers doi: 10.1016/j.imbio.2016.08.00; doi.org/10.1016/j.cimid.2017.09.004 and doi: 10.1017/S0031182018002068.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
"Canine leishmaniasis: the role of Kupffer cells and hepatocytes during Leishmania infantum infection" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Unanimously Approved |
2007/09/01 - 2008/12/05
Concluded
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Biologia Celular e Biotecnologia (Cellular Biology and Biotechnology) (Mestrado)
Major in Co-authorship in two scientific papers: doi: 10.1089/ten.TEC.2009.0784 and doi: 10.1089/ten.tec.2008.0352.
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Desenvolvimento de sistemas 3D de culturas primárias de hepatócitos para teste de drogas (Development of 3D primary hepatocyte
cultures for drug screening)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 valores |
2003/09 - 2007/09/14
Concluded
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Cellular Biology and Biotechnology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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15 valores |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/06/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal | ||
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Faculty of Pharmacy Research and Development Association - FARM-iD, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2012/10 - 2013/02 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas, Portugal |
Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2010/12/01 - 2011/09/01 | Intern for AICEP Portugal Global, in the 15th INOV Contact program 2010/2011 edition. Intenrship at Elan Pharmaceuticals integrated in the Assay Development group under the supervison of doctor Rut | Elan Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, Califórnia, USA, United States |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/01/01 - Current | 2022.00499.CEECIND - Tackling zoonotic Trypanosomatids: Extracellular vesicles, microRNAs and tridimensional (3D) cell models
to unravel host-parasite interactions
Post-doc
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal Associated Laboratory in Translation and Innovation Towards Global Health, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2020/06/01 - 2023/03 | PTDC/CVT-CVT/28908/2017 - Achieving new frontiers through trypanosomatid exosomes (TEx)
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2017/01 - 2018/01 | Ovarian cancer a suitable model to define metabolic profile as a tool to predict chemoresistance.
iNOVA4Health- project 4
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Portugal
Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE Unidade de Investigação em Patobiologia Molecular, Portugal |
iNOVA4Health
Concluded
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2011/10 - 2015/09 | Canine leishmaniasis: the role of Kupffer cells and hepatocytes during Leishmania infantum infection.
SFRH / BD / 73386 / 2010
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2011 - 2015 | Consequences of neutrophil-Leishmania infantum interactions in the establishment of canine leishmaniosis
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2011 - 2013 | Regulatory immune response in dogs with leishmaniosis at various clinical stages and undergoing different therapeutic protocols.
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
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2009/03 - 2010/09 | Vaccine potential of different Leishmania infantum proteins
PTDC/CVT/70275/2006
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/04 - Current | EXPL/CVT-CVT/0175/2021 - Tackling trypanosomiasis cardiomyopathy with microRNAs and tridimentional (3D) cell models
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Saúde Global e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2023 - Current | PTDC/CVT-CVT/0228/2020 - Immune precision medicine as a new opportunity to control canine trypanosomatid diseases - DogIPM
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/12 - Current | Cruzivax
Researcher
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung Abteilung Vakzinologie und angewandte Mikrobiologie, Germany
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
European Union
Ongoing
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2025/02/20 - 2026/08/19 | 2023.11944.PEX - New approaches on neglected cutaneous Leishmaniasis: tridimensional (3D) skin models and miRNA signatures
2023.11944.PEX
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2019/01 - 2020/01 | Understanding the underlying mechanisms by which mesenchymal stem cells promote liver regeneration: the specific role of exosomes
PTDC/MED-TOX/29183/2017
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/08 - Current | CA20110 - RNA communication across kingdoms: new mechanisms and strategies in pathogen control (exRNA-PATH)
Researcher
The University of Edinburgh Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, United Kingdom
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European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Ongoing
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2023 - Current | Open and Universal Science (OPUS)
Other
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Ongoing
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2022/11 - Current | CA21108 - European Network for Skin Engineering and Modeling (NETSKINMODELS)
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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European Union
Ongoing
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2009 - 2011 | Microtubule inhibitor formulations against zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
INETI - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2007/09 - 2008/12 | VITROCELLOMICS - Reducing Animal Experimentation in Preclinical Predictive Drug Testing by Human Hepatic in vitro Models Derived
from Embryonic Stem Cells
LSHB-CT-2006-018940
Other
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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European Union
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Online resource |
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Website |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/06 | Insights on host-parasite immunomodulation mediated by extracellular vesicles shed by leishmania parasites | Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Parassitologia - XXXIII Congresso SoIPa - Padova, Napoli, Italy
Società Italiana di Parassitologia (Italy)
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2024/01/10 | Chagas Disease: new insights into cardiomyopathies | Online and live international Webinar Changing the game in the battle against Tripanossomatids
Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2023/05/07 | How to present your results | Tec2Med Summit
Tec2Med Hub, Nova School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) (Caparica, Portugal)
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2023/01/05 | Exploiting extracellular vesicles in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis | webinar: Trypanosomiasis: challenges and opportunities
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2022/08 | LEISHMANIA INFANTUM AND CANINE MACROPHAGES: NEW INSIGHTS ON HOST-PARASITE IMMUNE CO-EVOLUTION, Oral presentation ID: O1-02 (253) | WorlLeish 7, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
(Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)
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2022/08 | EFFECT OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES SHEED BY LEISHMANIA SHAWI ON IMMUNOMODULATION OF MURINE MACROPHAGES , Oral presentation ID: O10-04 (257) | WorlLeish 7, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
(Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)
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2022/08 | CYTOKINE GENE EXPRESSION AND LYMPHOCYTE IMMUNOPHENOTYPING IN DOGS WITH LEISHMANIOSIS, Oral presentation ID: O25-05 (409) | WorlLeish 7, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
(Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)
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2022/08 | CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS: EXPLORING LEISHMANIA SP. EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AS IMMUNOMODULATORS OF HOST SKIN IMMUNE | ICOPA - World Federation of Parasitologists
ICOPA - World Federation of Parasitologists (Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2024/10 - Current | Title: Desvendar a resposta imunológica do sangue periférico de mamíferos à exposição ao Trypanosoma cruzi. For the obtention
of the MSc degree in Biomedical Sciences (IHMT/UNL). Role: Supervisor. Thesis in the context of project miT3D EXPL/CVT-CVT/0175/2021.
Supervisor
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Ciências Biomédicas (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
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2024/10 - Current | Title: Análise da resposta imunológica da pele canina à infeção por Leishmania sp.. For the obtention of the MSc degree in
Bioquímica para a Saúde (FCT, UNL) . Role: Supervisor. Thesis in the context of project miL3DSkin - 2023.11944.PEX.
Supervisor
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Bioquímica para a Saúde (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2024/01/10 - 2024/01/10 | Co- organization of the webinar/seminar session entitled "Changing the game in the battle against Trypanosomatids" prepared
in the context of DogIPM prroject (PTDC/CVT-CVT/0228/2020). More information available: https://dogipm.fmv.ulisboa.pt/ (2024/01/10 - 2024/01/10)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal |
2023/01/05 - 2023/01/05 | Co- organization of the webinar session entitled "Trypanosomiasis: challenges and opportunities" prepared in the context of
EXOTRYPANO (PTDC/CVT-CVT/28908/2017). More information available: http://exotrypano.fmv.ulisboa.pt/ (2023/01/05 - 2023/01/05)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2023/07 - Current | Associate Laboratory in Translation and Innovation Towards Global Health, LA-REAL | |
2021/02 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia | |
2021/02 - Current | WHO Collaborating Center for Health Workforce Planning and Policies - Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/UNL) Centro Colaborador da Organização Mundial de Saúde (CCol OMS) - Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/UNL) | |
2020 - Current | Global Heath and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) from Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHMT-UNL). |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2024 - Current | Doutoramento em Ciências Biomédicas (IHMT, UNL) , Unidade Curricular Imunologia das Doenças Infecciosas e Parasitárias, aulas teórica "Infecção e inflamação" ; Doctoral Program (3rd Cycle) in Biomedical Sciences (IHMT/UNL), Curricular Unit Immunology of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, theoretical class " Infection and Inflammation". | Ciências Biomédicas (Doutoramento) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal |