The best oral presentation awards were received by Ana Olivera (CIMUS, University of Santiago de Compostela) and Flávia Sousa (i3S, University of Porto, Portugal). Filipa Fonseca (i3S, University of Porto, Portugal) and Cristian Reboredo (University of Navarra, Spain) received the awards for the best poster communications.
- Ana Olivera
“Polymeric nanocapsules as a novel tolerogenic treatment for Type 1 Diabetes”
Ana Olivera is a 4th year PhD candidate at Maria Jose Alonso’s laboratory at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain. She has a Bsc in Biochemistry by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), and a Msc in Drug Development by the USC.
- Flavia Sousa
“Nanoencapsulated Bevacizumab Inhibits Glioblastoma Vascularization via Intratumoral VEGF Trapping”
Flávia Sousa is a 4th year PhD candidate at Bruno Sarmento's laboratory at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (I3s), University of Porto, Portugal. She has a BsC and Msc in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saude, Porto, Portugal.
- Filipa Fonseca
“Establishment of bioengineered glucose-responsive nanoparticles for type 2 diabetes mellitus therapy”
Filipa Fonseca is graduated in Biochemistry at Faculty of Sciences and Technology from New University of Lisbon (FCT/UNL) and she is now on the 2nd year of her master in Biochemistry for Health, a collaboration between FCT, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB) and Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) from UNL. Currently, she is doing her master dissertation at Nanomedicines & Translational Drug Delivery group at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação para a Saúde (i3S).
- Cristian Reboredo
“Evaluation of mucus-permeating nanocarriers for the oral delivery of proteins”
Cristian Reboredo is a 2nd year Ph. D. candidate at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Navarra (UNAV), under the supervision of Juan Manuel Irache. He has a Bsc in Biochemistry with a Research Training Programme mention in microbiology, and a Msc in Drug Research, Development and innovation by the UNAV
