Clinical trial in ischemic stroke
A consortium envolving our group, Criostaminal and Hospital Rovisco Pais will start a clinical trial for the application of a cell-based therapy (with cells isolated from the bone marrow) for the treatment of ischemic stroke. [...]
Congratulations to Miguel Lino
Miguel Lino has received the best poster award with the poster entitled "Spatio-temporal controlled delivery of miRNAs for modulation of cell activity" at the 10th International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Stem Cells and [...]
Lino Ferreira and Patrícia Pitrez interviewed on “90 segundos de ciência”
Lino Ferreira talked about the CardioStem project, which is focused on the development of new cell therapies and in vitro cardiac tissue to study new drugs for cardiac repair. http://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-191 Patrícia Pitrez talked abou her project, [...]
Congratulations to Miguel Lino for his PhD
Miguel Lino, PhD student from the doctoral program in Biosciences of the University of Coimbra, defended his PhD on the 20th of June. His thesis was entitled: "Light-triggerable nanomaterials for the delivery of biomolecules"
New work published in PNAS
High-throughput identification of small molecules that affect human embryonic vascular development Link: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/15/E3022.short