Scientific Highlights
Articles
Silva, A., Almeida, B., Fraga, J. S., Taboada, P., Martins, P. M., & Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2017). Distribution of Amyloid-Like and Oligomeric Species from Protein Aggregation Kinetics. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 56(45), 14042–14045. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201707345
Scarff, C. A., Almeida, B., Fraga, J., Macedo-Ribeiro, S., Radford, S. E., & Ashcroft, A. E. (2015). Examination of Ataxin-3 (atx-3) Aggregation by Structural Mass Spectrometry Techniques: A Rationale for Expedited Aggregation upon Polyglutamine (polyQ) Expansion. Molecular & cellular proteomics: MCP, 14(5), 1241–1253. https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M114.044610
Almeida, B., Abreu, I. A., Matos, C. A., Fraga, J. S., Fernandes, S., Macedo, M. G., Gutiérrez-Gallego, R., Pereira, P. J., Carvalho, A. L., & Macedo-Ribeiro, S. (2015). SUMOylation of the brain-predominant Ataxin-3 isoform modulates its interaction with p97. Biochimica et Biophysica acta, 1852(9), 1950–1959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2015.06.010
Cunha, C., Aversa, F., Lacerda, J. F., Busca, A., Kurzai, O., Grube, M., Löffler, J., Maertens, J. A., Bell, A. S., Inforzato, A., Barbati, E., Almeida, B., Santos e Sousa, P., Barbui, A., Potenza, L., Caira, M., Rodrigues, F., Salvatori, G., Pagano, L., Luppi, M., … Carvalho, A. (2014). Genetic PTX3 deficiency and aspergillosis in stem-cell transplantation. The New England Journal of Medicine, 370(5), 421–432. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1211161
Funding and Awards
CEO and Co-founder of IPLEXMED, a spin off company that develops the new generation of fast, portable, and connectable laboratory-grade diagnostic devices
Winner of “Empreender Braga” 2021 – pre-acceleration program from Startup Braga – IPLEXMED New Generation Diagnostics. IPLEXMED. CEO & Co-founder
Winner of “7th Startup Braga Acceleration program” 2022 – IPLEXMED New Generation Diagnostics. IPLEXMED. CEO & Co-founder
Winner of the BfK – Born from Knowledge Award from ANI, Agência Nacional de Inovação – IPLEXMED. CEO & Co-founder
Finalist of the AIIA – Altice International Innovation Award 2022. IPLEXMED. CEO & Co-founder
Patents
Graphene-based malaria sensor, methods and uses thereof. International Patent Application no: PCT/IB2022/051743