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About

Bioengineering Systems | CNC Faculty

The Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) is a Research Institute committed to excellence in Bioscience and Biomedicine. It was the first Associated Laboratory in Portugal, and is part of the Network of European Neuroscience Institutes (ENI). The CNC brings together researchers from the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra, as well as from the University Hospitals (HUC) and Pharmaceutical industries.

Amália Jurado

Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Department of the University of Coimbra

asjurado@ci.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Biomembranes and Biochemical Toxicology


Ana Luisa Carvalho

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra

alc@ibili.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission; Biopolymers production


Carlos B. Duarte

Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Coimbra

cbduarte@ci.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Neuronal cell death; Neuroprotection; Regulation of synaptic activity by neurotrophins


Carlos Geraldes

Full Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Coimbra

geraldes@ci.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Biomedical NMR and Molecular Imaging


Catarina Resende Oliveira

Full Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

catarina@cnc.cj.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Neuroscience and Disease – Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Group


Conceição Pedrosa de Lima

Full Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Coimbra

mdelima@ci.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Non-viral vectors for gene therapy; Membrane fusion; Nucleo-cytoplasmic transport of the African Swine Fever virus genome and associated proteins


João Nuno Moreira

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra

jmoreira@ci.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Non-viral vectors for drug and molecular targeting


João O. Malva

Senior Researcher, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Coimbra and Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology

jomalva@fmed.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Neuroscience – Neuroprotection and Neurogenesis in Brain Repair


Lino Ferreira

Assistant Researcher, Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology (CNC)/Biocant (Coimbra)

lino@biocant.pt

Research Interests: Biomaterials, Stem cell differentiation, Tissue engineering


Luís Almeida

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra

luispa@ci.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Gene therapy to the central nervous system


Miguel Castelo-Branco

Assistant Professor of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

mcbranco@ibili.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Visual Neuroscience; Human Psychophysics; Functional Brain Imaging in Humans and Animals; Human and Animal Neurophysiology


Rodrigo A. Cunha

Associated Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

cunharod@gmail.com

Research Area(s): Neuropharmacology


Sérgio Simões

Assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra

ssimoes@ci.uc.pt

Research Area(s): Nanobiotechnology; Non-viral vectors for gene silencing/gene therapy; Cancer gene therapy

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