A new PhD in our lab: Congratulations Patrícia!

On 22nd April 2024, our former PhD student in Biomedicine, Patrícia Correia, successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘New Molecular Targets and Signaling Pathways for Spinal Cord Injury Therapeutics’. The event took place at the University of Aveiro, and the jury was composed by Dr. Mónica Sousa [Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3s), University of Porto, Portugal], Dr. Veronica Estrada (Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, e.V., Aachen, Germany), Dr. Víctor Carriel Araya (Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Spain) and Dr. Miguel Pais Vieira (iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Portugal).

For the past 4 years, Patrícia has been working on the identification of new genetic targets and signaling pathways associated with neuroregeneration after injury, with the supervision of our PI, Dr. Sandra Vieira, and Dr. Frank Bosse, from the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Congratulations, Dr. Patrícia! All the best for your future!

New publication in Small Science

Our latest article reviewing the research trends and applicability of magnetic stimulation therapeutic approaches for musculoskeleton diseases has been published in Small Science (IF = 12.7).

You can find the full-text version here:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smsc.202300303

José G. S. Figueiredo; Bárbara M. de Sousa; Marco P. Soares dos Santos; Sandra I. Vieira. (2024)"Gathering Evidence to Leverage Musculoskeletal Magnetic Stimulation Towards Clinical Applicability". Small Science, 4(5). Doi:10.1002/smsc.202300303

Oral Communications in Medical Technologies in Spinal Cord Injuries – An awareness workshop

Our PhD students, Bruna Cruz and José Gabriel Figueiredo, represented our lab at the Medical Technologies in Spinal Cord Injuries – An awareness workshop that took place at the University of Aveiro on 27th October, presenting 2 flash talks.

Bruna presented the main findings of our recently published review in a short talk entitled 'Cell therapies for spinal cord injury: ​a review of the clinical trials and cell-type therapeutic potential​'.

José Gabriel provided an overview of his PhD project on the effects of a brain-machine interface intervention in SCI patients.

The details of the event can be found at: https://spinalcordworkshop.wixsite.com/medical-technologies