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Cristina Almeida has obtained her BSc in Biomedical Sciences in 2018. During her studies she acquired a background in several fields, from chemistry to biology. Following completing her BSc, Cristina did an internship at the Clinical Hematology Service of the Porto Hospital Center, where she studied hematologic malignancies.
Due to her interest on the field, Cristina continued her studies by enrolling in the MSc in Oncology at Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, which she finished by 2020 with a final score of 17/20.
During the degree, she took an internship at the Cellular Immunology Laboratory - Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil (IPO-Porto), which allowed her to consolidate skills on cancer diagnosis and therapy. Cristina´s MSc thesis focused on studying the effect of Extracellular vesicles-derived LAT1 and ASCT2 mRNAs on colorectal cancer development. Besides obtaining a final score of 18/20 on her thesis
defense, Cristina´s work resulted in an oral presentation at the 1st Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles (PNEV), and 2 poster + 2 oral presentations (best posters were selected for oral presentation), in the 2nd and 3rd National Meeting of Young Researchers in Oncology. It also resulted in one scientific article as 1st author, published in the indexed journal Biology (IF=5.168, Q1).
In 2021, Cristina was awarded a research grant by Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro, Regional Nucleus of North (LPCCNRN). The work plan aimed to identify and validate deregulated miRNAs that target LAT1 and ASCT2 mRNAs in colorectal cancer. In 2022, Cristina was once more awarded a LPCCNRN research grant, which allowed her to pursue her work, and focus on studying the potential of extracellular vesicles as delivery
vehicles of hsa-miR-122-5p, hsa-miR-149-3p, and has-miR-383-3p mimics for colorectal cancer therapy. The work developed during this period resulted in one scientific article, published in the indexed journal Biomedicines (IF:4.757, Q2). Cristina is the second author of the article having equal contribution with the 1st author. Additionally, this work resulted in a poster + oral presentation at the 4th National Meeting of Young
Researchers in Oncology, and an oral presentation at the 17th YES Meeting. During her studies, internships and 2 years experience as a research fellow, Cristina acquired hands-on experience in nanoparticles production and materials encapsulation, cell culture, cell morphology and viability characterization, also on molecular biology characterization techniques, amongst others.
Presently, Cristina is part of LEPABE-FEUP/i3S, Graphene and 2D-nanomaterials (2DnMat) team, led by Professors Artur Pinto, Fernão Magalhães, and Maria Oliveira's. Her work focuses on exploring new 2DnMat combined with drugs for cancer photo-chemotherapy, a subject in line with her 7 years cancer research background. Currently she's applying for a PhD grant that will allow her to focus on developing New Pharmaceutical Formulations for Rectal Cancer Photo-Chemotherapy (2023.01484.BD).
Cristina has contributed to 3 research projects so far. Project SIRNAC [NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-033399], LAT1 and ASCT2 regulatory miRNAs as potential therapeutic agents in colorectal cancer and Extracellular vesicles as a delivery system of microRNAs mimics therapy in colorectal cancer. She´s currently a research fellow working at LEPABE-FEUP and i3S (Research Grant LEPABE_BI_MAT2 - FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) - UIDP/00511/2020). Cristina has co-authored 2 articles in international journals, and has performed 4 oral and 3 poster presentations.
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