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Research Associate

Education and Training

MSc in Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2016

MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2013

BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2011

Research activities

As a pharmacist I can offer my clinical and practical perspective of what the patients might need in terms of pharmacological care, and therefore provide better guidance to a future medicine discovery. Currently I am interested in conductive polymers to build scaffolds capable of support cell growth. My aim is to develop novel platforms for neural stem cells, capable of assuring their survival and promoting their growth and differentiation into fully functional neurons.

Selected publications

Garrudo, F.F.F., Mikael, P.E., Rodrigues, C.A.V., Udangawa, R.W., Paradiso, P., Chapman, C.A., Hoffman, P., Colaço, R., Cabral, J.M.S., Morgado, J., Linhardt, R.J., Ferreira, F.C. Polyaniline-polycaprolactone fibers for neural applications: Electroconductivity enhanced by pseudo-doping. Mater Sci Eng C doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.111680 [Epub ahead of print] (2020).

Garrudo, F.F.F., Udangawa, R.N., Hoffman, P.R., Sordini, L., Chapman, C.A., Mikael, P.E., Ferreira, F.A., Silva, J.C., Rodrigues, C.A.V., Cabral, J.M.S., Morgado, J.M.F., Ferreira, F.C., Linhardt, R.J. Polybenzimidazole nanofibers for neural stem cell culture. Mater Today Chem 14:100185 (2019).

Garrudo, F.F.F., Chapman, C.A., Hoffman, P., Udangawa, R.W., Silva, J.C., Mikael, P.E., Rodrigues, C.A.V., Cabral, J.M.S., Morgado, J.M.F., Ferreira, F.C., Linhardt, R.J. Polyaniline-Polycaprolactone Blended Nanofibers for Neural Cell Culture. Eur Polym J 117:28-37 (2019).