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Distinguished Full Professor

Education and Training

Habilitation, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1989

Post Doctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1983-1984

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1983

Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1976

Appointments

Director of the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Director of the Associate Laboratory Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Portugal

Principal Investigator of the Stem Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Research Group, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Coordinator of the PhD program in Bioengineering

Coordinator of the MSc in Bioengineering for Regenerative and Precision Medicine

Research activities

Stem Cells Research for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; Stem Cell Bioprocessing and Manufacturing: Development of novel stem cell bioreactors and advanced bioseparation and purification processes.

Selected publications

Gomes, A.R., Fernandes, T.G., Cabral, J.M.S., Diogo, M.M. Modeling Rett Syndrome with Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Mechanistic Outcomes and Future Clinical Perspectives. Int J Mol Sci 22(7) (2021).

Jalili-Firoozinezhad, S., Miranda, C.C, Cabral, J.M.S. Modeling the Human Body on Microfluidic Chips. Trends Biotechnol 39(8):838-852 (2021).

Nogueira, D.E.S., Cabral, J.M.S., Rodrigues, C.A.V. Single-Use Bioreactors for Human Pluripotent and Adult Stem Cells: Towards Regenerative Medicine Applications. Bioengineering 8(5):68 (2021).

Nogueira, D.E.S., Rodrigues, C.A.V., Cabral, J.M.S. Emerging strategies for scalable human induced pluripotent stem cell expansion and differentiation. in Methods in iPSC Technology, Birbrair, A. (ed.), Academic Press, ISBN 9780323857666 (2021).

Silva, T.P., Sousa-Luís, R., Fernandes, T.G., Bekman, E.P., Rodrigues, C.A.V., Vaz, S.H., Moreira, L.M., Hashimura, Y., Jung, S., Lee, B., Carmo-Fonseca, M., Cabral, J.M.S. Transcriptome profiling of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cerebellar organoids reveals faster commitment under dynamic conditions. Biotechnol Bioeng 118(7):2781-2803 (2021).