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Senior Researcher
Dr. Sandra Pinto
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@ Instituto Superior Técnico
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Research

Dr. Sandra Pinto has a PhD in chemistry. She is a researcher at IST-ID in the Biospectroscopy and Interfaces Research Group (BSIRG-iBB). Sandra does research in Medicinal chemistry, Cell biophysics (with particular focusing on confocal and two-photon microscopy) and microbiology. In the last five years she has been focused on development of innovative biophysical and imaging techniques for the characterization of microbial biofilms, as well as uncovering novel strategies to overcome drug resistance. In this sense, she and other colleagues identified polymeric nanoparticles that are synthetic mimics of AMPs.  These nanoparticles were well tolerated by human cells and showed sub-μM broad-spectrum activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria in their planktonic form. This work resulted in a patent (“Polímeros de Núcleo-Camada Catiónicos”, Portuguese Patent N. 116802, granted in 21.04.2023).

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Dr. Sandra Pinto has published 51 manuscripts, with current h-index of 19 and 1121 (Google Scholar) citations (869 citations and h-index=17 in SCOPUS).

News

2022

The exploratory project DENDRICARE “Next generation of antibiofilm agents: Multivalent dendrimers with antimicrobial and biofilm disruption activity” (2022.03627.PTDC), of which Sandra Pinto is the PI was approved for funding by FCT.

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2021

The project SentinelEVs “Engineering broad-spectrum defensosomes for a bacterial antivirulence therapeutic strategy” (EXPL/BTM-MAT/0910/2021), of which Sandra Pinto is the Co-PI, was approved for funding by FCT.

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July 1st 2019

Project developed by iBB wins Research Fellowship in the area of cancer treatment

The project OSTEOGLUTIS aims to contribute to a better understanding of bone lesions from myeloma

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The 10,000€ fellowship will allow the team to develop new treatment options for multiple myeloma based on regenerative medicine.

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Despite many advances, Multiple myeloma is a malignant plasma cell disorder that accounts for approximately 10% of all hematologic cancers and it remains an incurable disease and almost all patients will relapse.

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The winning project called OSTEOGLUTIS aims to contribute to a better understanding of bone lesions from myeloma. It proposes a new methodology for in vitro osteogenic differentiation, without genetic manipulation, of human mesenchymal stem cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. This methodology will be used to carry out research on cross-regulation plasma cells from multiple myeloma and osteoblasts, through osteoblast bone remodeling.

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The research team is composed of Dr .Vasco Bonifácio (Team Leader), Dr. Sandra Pinto and Dr. Margarida Diogo, all iBB researchers.

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The 3rd edition of the Multiple Myeloma Research Fellowship was created by the Portuguese Association Against Leukemia (APCL) and the Portuguese Society of Hematology (SPH), with the support of Amgen Biopharmaceutical. According to Aida Botelho de Sousa, president of SPH, “this fellowship is important to stimulate researchers who work in the area of multiple myeloma”.

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According to Manuel Abecasis, President of APCL, “the winning project will contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between myeloma cells and the bone marrow stroma, thus opening perspectives for the development of new treatments”.

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According to Tiago Amieiro, Director at Amgen, “Amgen is committed to improve the lives of patients. The 3rd edition of the Multiple Myeloma Research Fellowship is no exception. This fellowship aims to enhance the knowledge about this disease, diagnosis, treatment, patient monitoring, quality of life and / or cost and burden of disease in Portugal”.

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This project will be carried out at the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB), a research unit of Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa.

Contact

Dr. Sandra Pinto
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (iBB)
Instituto Superior Técnico

Complexo Interdisciplinar
Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais,
1049 001 Lisboa, Portugal

sandrapinto[@]tecnico.ulisboa.pt

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