Pedro Gouveia from the Experimental Biology and Biomedicine PhD program of CNC (Univeristy of Coimbra) and Patricia Pitrez from MIT Portugal Program (Univeristy of Minho) defended their PhD thesis last June, 2016. Pedro’s thesis was entitled “Cardiac Tissue Constructs for Drug Screening”. Patricia’s thesis was entitled “Bioengineering Platforms to Modulate the Activity of Smooth Muscle Cells Derived from Progeria-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells”.