ICVS researcher Luísa Pinto has been chosen as the editor in chief of a new Elsevier journal “Brain Organoid & Systems Neuroscience Journal” (BOSN).
BOSN is an online gold open access journal publishing research articles and reviews after full peer review. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. The journal places a strong emphasis on brain organogenesis and related stem cell technologies, structure and function of neural circuits and systems, next generation self-organizing models to study development and disease.
Luísa Pinto is graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Coimbra and performed an internship at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) on therapeutic tools for Parkinson’s Disease. She holds a PhD in Neurosciences by the Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München (Germany). She is currently an Assistant Researcher with tenure and team coordinator of the “Brain circuits and neuron-glia adaptations” thematic line at ICVS, focusing on novel therapeutics for Depression and Neurodegenerative Disorders. She is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Minho and co‐founder Member of the European College of NeuroPsychopharmacolgy (ECNP) Thematic Network on Resilience.
