- Categoria
- Bolseiro
- Unidade Orgânica
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- a.moreira@ua.pt
- Ciência ID
- 4013-37AB-936E
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0006-5117-7182
A. Catarina Moreira is a first-year PhD student at the University of Aveiro working on the Centre for Mechanical Engineering and Automation (TEMA/UA) and the Institute of Materials Aveiro (CICECO/UA), in collaboration with the spin off Cellularis Biomodels. Her research interests focus on the development of personalized and dynamic therapeutic strategies for cancer patients. In this context, her PhD project focuses on the design and biological testing of microfluidic tumor-on-a-chip platforms for 3D breast cancer models to study the in vitro delivery of dynamic electrochemotherapy. A key objective is the development of a dynamic, automated controller, inspired by nature-based algorithms, to achieve a more personalized and less empirical therapeutic delivery strategy. In parallel, she investigates innovative nanotherapeutic materials, including isotope-enriched systems for neutron capture therapy (NCT), with applications in brain and head-and-neck cancers. She has strong hands-on experience in cell culture, biochemical and molecular biology assays, immunoblotting, immunofluorescence, and imaging analysis, as well as in CAD and MATLAB software, 3D printing, and organic material synthesis and characterization. Catarina has participated in several national and international research initiatives, contributing to six scientific communications (five posters and one oral presentation) and authoring four scientific publications (three published and one submitted). Her research work has been recognized with awards at two scientific conferences. Additionally, she has been selected to participate in two international summer schools, further strengthening her interdisciplinary and international research training. Overall, Catarina is committed to advancing interdisciplinary and translational biomedical solutions, combining engineering-driven platform development, biological validation, and computational approaches to support the development of more effective and targeted cancer therapies.
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Financiamentos
CARBONCT - Multifunctional carbon nanocapsules for highly efficient neutron cancer therapy.
Black Hole-Inspired Dynamic Control of Electrochemotherapy Using Patient-Derived Tumor Models
Publicações
Silica-Based Porous Adsorbents for Efficient 17a-Ethinylestradiol Removal: Role of Organic Functionalization and Water Matrices
Calisto, Vânia; Ilkaeva, Marina; Lourenço, Mirtha A. O.; Mafra, Luís; Morais, Tiago; Moreira, Ana C.; Pereira, Diogo; Sardo, Mariana; Sequera, Geraldine
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2026Advanced Carbon Nanocapsules for neutron cancer therapy
Almeida, Duarte; Gonçalves, Gíl; Moreira, A. Catarina
5th International Conference on Carbon Chemistry & Materials (Carbon-2025) | 2025Multifunctional carbon dots nanocapsules for neutron capture cancer therapy
Almeida, Duarte; Gonçalves, Gíl; Moreira, A. Catarina
TEchMA - New Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering | 2025Multilevel classification framework for breast cancer cell selection and its integration with advanced disease models
Cinti, Stefano; Dias, Diogo; Djamgoz, Mustafa B.A.; Ferreira, Frederico Castelo; Gonçalves, Gíl; Jones, Catarina Franco; Moreddu, Rosalia; Moreira, Ana C.; Sanjuan-Alberte, Paola
iScience | 2025Carbon Dots Driving Innovation in Health and Environmental Technologies
Almeida, Duarte; Gonçalves, Gíl; Moreira, A. Catarina
7th International Conference on Nanomaterials Science and Mechanical Engineering | 2025Revolutionizing Chemotherapy Control using Black Hole Inspired Dynamics
Carlos Herdeiro, A. R.; Delfim Torres, F. M.; Gonçalves, Gíl; Moreiral, Ana; Rodrigo Bernardo, M. C.; Santos, Hélder A.; Santos, Marco P. Soares dos; Vida, João V.
2025 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD) | 2025In-House Engineered Cosurface Capacitive Electrodes For Customized Neuronal Electrical Stimulation
de Sousa, Bárbara M.; Diogo G. Pires; Marco P. Soares dos Santos; Moreira, A. Catarina; Sencadas, Vitor; Vieira, Sandra Isabel
VIII iBiMED Symposium | 2025Cosurface Capacitive Electrodes: A New Approach for Personalized Neuronal Electrical Stimulation
de Sousa, Bárbara M.; Diogo G. Pires; Marco P. Soares dos Santos; Moreira, A. Catarina; Sencadas, Vitor; Vieira, Sandra Isabel
XVI Symposium on Bioengineering | 2025Development of capacitive interdigitated cosurface electrodes for in vitro electrical stimulation of neuronal cells
Universidade de Aveiro | 2025
Next-generation chemotherapy treatments based on black hole algorithms: From cancer remission to chronic disease management
Ana Moreira; Carlos A.R. Herdeiro; Delfim F. M. Torres; Gil Gonçalves; Hélder A. Santos; João Vidal; Marco P. Soares dos Santos; Rodrigo M. C. Bernardo
Computers in Biology and Medicine | 2024Neuritogenic effects of in-house developed capacitive interdigitated electrical stimulators
de Sousa, Bárbara M.; Marco P. Soares dos Santos; Moreira, A. Catarina; Sencadas, Vitor; Vieira, Sandra Isabel
VII iBiMED Symposium | 2024Bioengineered functional living-beads as vascularization platforms
Beatriz Pereira; Catarina Caramelo; Gameiro, Mariana; Moreira, A. Catarina; ROQUE, CECÍLIA
Final Project of the Advanced and Biomimetic Biomaterials Course Unit | 2023Development of periodic mesoporous organosilicas for hormone capture
et al; Geraldine Sequera; Marina Ilkaeva; Morais, Tiago; Moreira, A. Catarina; Pereira, Diogo; Sardo, Mariana; Sousa, Érika
Jornadas CICECO 22 | 2022