Nuno Silva received is PhD in Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells from the University of Minho in 2012. His PhD work consisted on the development of novel approaches for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Repair based on biodegradable materials and stem cells. His PhD was carried out in 3B’s Research Group and in the Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research of the University of Toronto. In 2012 he started a post-doc at ICVS dedicated to study the best therapeutic combination to treat the spinal cord. In 2014 he was able to capture national competitive funding and started his own lab. In 2019 his position was reinforced through a FCT CEEC grant (Assistant Researcher). The concept of his lab is based on an intimate cross talk between Pharmacotherapies, Cells Therapy, SCI animal models and basic neuroscience. He is currently an author of 50 scientific publications and has more than 2200 citations and an h-index of 22. Parallel to his research activity his has been acting as referee for several international journals, for the European Science Foundation and is part of the editorial board of 4 international journals. He was part of the scientific and organizing committees of the Spinal Cord Iberian Symposium (SCiS 2015) and was the meeting chair of the first International Meeting of the Portuguese Network on Spinal Cord Injury (MiSCI-2019). Finally, during his research career, Nuno Silva was able to capture more than 1.000.000€ of competitive funding, either as salary grants (438k) or in research projects (644k).