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Laura Mendonça (LM) has a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Biodiversity and Vegetal Biotechnology, both from the University of Coimbra. During her years of study, she had the opportunity to do several internships in the field of plant biology and medicinal plants, namely the Ethnomedic and etnobotanic research in aromatic and medicinal plants of Côa Valley, participating in botanic expeditions to harvest plants for herborization and extraction of bioactive compounds in the context of the project CôaMedPlants. As part of her MSc, she developed a thesis entitled The Medical Herbarium of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (19th century): the plants in the basis of drug development, which aimed to create awareness for medicinal plants as a source of bioactive molecules useful in drug development and the importance of biological collections and biodiversity conservation. She published an article and an encyclopaedia entry about the Lamiaceae family in the process of skin healing and an article and an encyclopedia entry about nanotechnology-based topical delivery of natural products for the management of Atopic Dermatitis. LM is co-organizer of the ScienTEAfic Talks (cycle of round tables about medicinal plants) and the exhibition "De onde vêm os medicamentos? 12 exemplos de plantas bem-sucedidas".
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Laura Francisca Martins Mendonça

Citation names

  • Mendonça, Laura

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FD1A-7F92-870A
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8508-5020

Addresses

  • Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research (iCBR), Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC), Polo III - Health Sciences , Campus Azinhaga de Santa Comba, Celas, 3000-548, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English
Italian
Education
Degree Classification
2024/09 - 2028
Ongoing
 Ciências da Saúde (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"CôaMAP: a multidiscilinary approach to value the medicinal and aromatic plants from Côa Valley" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2024 - 2025
Concluded
 Ciências da Saúde (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
 18
2021/09 - 2023/09
Concluded
 Biodiversity and Plant Biotechnology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
"The Medical Herbarium of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (19th Century): The Plants in the Basis of Drug Development" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2018 - 2021
Concluded
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 14
2020
Concluded
 Voluntary Internship- Screening for quarantine organisms, processing of various plant samples for molecular analysis (Outros)
Major in Biology
Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/03 - 2024/09 Retail employee (part-time) Sonae SGPS SA, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2025/01/01 - Current CôaMAP: a multidisciplinary approach to value the medicinal and aromatic plants from Côa Valley
2024.15162.PRT
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal

Fundação Côa Parque, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/08 - 2022/09 Verão com Ciência 2022 da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
UID 4539
UID 4539
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Mendonça, Laura; Ana Castanheira; Varela, Carla; Girao, Henrique; Freitas, Helena; Célia Cabral. Corresponding author: Célia Cabral. "Medical Herbarium of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra: from a 19th century collection to the 21st century health literacy". Paper presented in 71st International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA), 2023.
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Marques, M.P.; Mendonça, L.; Neves, B.G.; Varela, C.; Oliveira, P.; Cabral, C. "Pharmacological Wound Healing Evidence of Iberian Lamiaceae". In Schorlarly Community Encyclopedia, 2023. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/41740.
  2. Marques, Mário Pedro; Varela, Carla; Mendonça, Laura; Célia Cabral. "Nanotechnology-Based Topical Delivery of Natural Products for AD". In Schorlarly Community Encyclopedia, 2023. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/46254.
Exhibition catalog
  1. Mendonça, Laura; Varela, Carla; Célia Cabral. ScienTEAfic Talks: Summer Panel (Atropa bella-donna L. ; Digitalis purpurea L. ; Hyoscyamus niger L.). 2023.
  2. Mendonça, Laura; Varela, Carla; Célia Cabral. ScienTEAfic Talks: Spring Panel (Coffea arabica L. ; Papaver somniferum L. ; Taxus brevifolia Nutt.). 2023.
  3. Mendonça, Laura; Varela, Carla; Célia Cabral. ScienTEAfic Talks: Autumn Panel (Cannabis sativa L. ; Galanthus woronowii Losinsk. ; Salix alba L.). 2023.
  4. Mendonça, Laura; Varela, Carla; Célia Cabral. ScienTEAfic Talks: Summer Panel (Colchicum autumnale L.; Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.; Symphytum officinale L.)). 2023.
Journal article
  1. Marques, Mário Pedro; Varela, Carla; Mendonça, Laura; Cabral, Célia. "Nanotechnology-Based Topical Delivery of Natural Products for the Management of Atopic Dermatitis". Pharmaceutics 15 6 (2023): 1724. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15061724.
    10.3390/pharmaceutics15061724
  2. Marques, Mário P.; Mendonça, Laura; Neves, Beatriz G.; Varela, Carla; Oliveira, Paulo; Cabral, Célia. "Exploring Iberian Peninsula Lamiaceae as Potential Therapeutic Approaches in Wound Healing". Pharmaceuticals 16 3 (2023): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph16030347.
    10.3390/ph16030347
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. ""The Medical Herbarium of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (19th Century): The Plants in the Basis of Drug Development". Master, Universidade de Coimbra, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/10316/110250.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/03 - Current ScienTEAfic Talks- "De onde vêm os medicamentos? 12 exemplos de plantas bem-sucedidas" (2023/03)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/04/19 - 2033/04/19 Workshop Como fazer um herbário de plantas medicinais (included in Semana da Ciência e da Tecnologia 2022, Escola Dr Joaquim Carvalho) (2023/04/19 - 2023/04/19)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Ciência Viva, Portugal
2025/03/06 - 2025/03/06 O Cientista Regressa à Escola- Promovemos o regresso de cientistas à sua escola do 1º Ciclo para realizar oficinas de ciências (2025/03/06 - 2025/03/06)
Workshop
 Associação Native Scientists, Portugal
2024/11/23 - 2024/11/23 Speed-Meeting at X meet.Eco (2024/11/23 - 2024/11/23)
Congress (Other)
2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27 European Researcher's Night SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL CHALLENGES (2024/09/27 - 2024/09/27)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/05 - 2024/05 O Cientista Regressa à Escola- Promovemos o regresso de cientistas à sua escola do 1º Ciclo para realizar oficinas de ciências (2024/05 - 2024/05)
Workshop
 Associação Native Scientists, Portugal
2023/03/22 - 2023/12/22 "De onde vêm os medicamentos? 12 exemplos de plantas bem-sucedidas" (2023/03/22 - 2023/12/22)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/11/24 - 2023/11/24 Final Meeting CôaMedPlants Project (2023/11/24 - 2023/11/24)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/11/18 - 2023/11/18 Speed-Meeting at IX meet.Eco (2023/11/18 - 2023/11/23)
Congress (Other)
2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30 PICNIC COM SAÚDE @CBR (2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30) Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/05/04 - 2023/05/04 Talk "Plantas medicinais do Vale do Côa"/Oficina de Ciência (included in Jornadas da Ciência Foz Côa 23- Pela sustentabilidade, Auditório Museu do Côa) (2023/05/04 - 2023/05/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2023/05/03 - 2023/05/03 Oficina de Ciência pelo CôaMedPlants (included in Jornadas da Ciência Foz Côa 23- Pela sustentabilidade, AE Tenente Coronel Adão Carrapatoso) (2023/05/03 - 2023/05/03)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2023/02 - 2023/02 Workshop Medical Plants: the other side of drugs (included in the congress: XII In4Med Coimbra's Medical and Scientific Congress- Defy the limits, break the norm) (2023/02 - 2023/02)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/01/11 - 2023/01/11 Workshop Da planta ao medicamento: vários exemplos práticos (included in Semana da Ciência e da Tecnologia 2022, Escola 2,3 Martim de Freitas) (2023/01/11 - 2023/01/11)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Ciência Viva, Portugal
2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30 European Researcher's Night SCIEVER - SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE: 14. Medicinal plants: a natural and sustainable approach (2022/09/30 - 2022/09/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/02 Workshop Medical Plants: the other side of drugs (included in the congress: XI In4Med- Awakening curious minds, one piece at a time) (2022/02 - 2022/02)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Investigação Clínica e Biomédica de Coimbra, Portugal
2021/09/24 - 2021/09/24 European Researcher's Night SciCli: 29. Medicinal plants (2021/09/24 - 2021/09/24)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/06 - 2021/03 XXIII National Meeting of Biology Students (2021/03 - 2021/03)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/06/27 - 2025/06/27 Workshop on Oxygen Physiology and Respirometry in Biomedical Research
Workshop
 Workshop on Oxygen Physiology and Respirometry in Biomedical Research
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal
2023/01/15 - 2023/01/15 Chair of the presentation of the book My Herbarium of Medicinal Plants from Côa Valley
Other
 Presentation of the book My Herbarium of Medicinal Plants from Côa Valley
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023 - 2023 III MAD retreat - Inflammaging: From Societal to Clinical Challenges
Conference
 III MAD retreat - Inflammaging: From Societal to Clinical Challenges
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022/12/19 - 2022/12/19 CIBB meeting 2022
Conference
 CIBB meeting 2022
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Inovação em Biomedicina e Biotecnologia, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/01 - Current Databasing of the Medical Herbarium of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (19th century) Ana Castanheira

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/05 - 2021/05 Botanical expedition in the context of the project CôaMedPlants (Côa Valley, Portugal)