Scientific Highlights
1 – 1st Prize of the 13th edition of the Young Entrepreneur Award sponsored by the Portuguese Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE); 2 – CEO of the start-up company BNML – Behavioural & Molecular Braga, Portugal; 3 – Co-founder Member of the European College of NeuroPsychopharmacolgy (ECNP) Thematic Network on Resilience; 4 – Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact; 2019 Brain Sciences, USA; 5 – Patent: Luisa Pinto, António Pinheiro, João Bessa, Mónica Morais, Nuno Sousa, “Immuno-Golgi as a tool for analyzing neuronal 3D-dendritic structure in phenotypically charaterized neurons”, National patent nº105555; European Patent n.º 12718746.6, N/Ref.: PPE 48174/13. 6 – Scientific publication: Silveira-Rosa, T., Mateus-Pinheiro, A., Correia, J.S., Silva, J.M., Martins-Macedo, J., Araújo, B., Machado-Santos, A.R., Alves, N.D., Silva, M., Loureiro-Campos, E., Sotiropoulos, I., Bessa, J.M., Rodrigues, A.J., Sousa, N., Patrício, P.* and Pinto, L.* (2022). Suppression of adult cytogenesis in the rat brain leads to sex-differentiated disruption of the HPA axis activity. Cell Proliferation, Feb;55(2):e13165. 7 – Scientific publication: Loureiro-Campos, E., Mateus-Pinheiro, A., Patrício, P., Soares-Cunha, C., Silva. J., Sardinha, V.M., Mendes-Pinheiro, B., Silveira-Rosa, T., Domingues, A.V., Rodrigues, A.J., Oliveira, J.F., Sousa, N., Alves, N.D.* and Pinto, L.* (2021). Constitutive AP2gamma deficiency reduces postnatal hippocampal neurogenesis, inducing anxious-like phenotype and memory impairments in juvenile mice that either persist or emerge during adulthood. eLife, 10:e70685; 8 – Scientific publication: Mateus-Pinheiro, A., Patrício, P., Alves, N.D., Martins-Macedo, J., Caetano, I., Silveira-Rosa, T., Araújo, B., Mateus-Pinheiro, M., Silva-Correia, J., Sardinha, V.M., Loureiro-Campos, E., Rodrigues, A.J., Oliveira, J.F., Bessa, J.M., Sousa, N., Pinto, L.* (2021). Hippocampal cytogenesis abrogation impairs inter-regional communication between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex and promotes the time-dependent manifestation of emotional and cognitive deficits. Molecular Psychiatry, Dec 26(12): 7154–66; 9 – Scientific Publication: Antunes C., MSc, Da Silva J.D., Guerra-Gomes S., Alves N.D., Ferreira F., Loureiro-Campos E., Branco M.R., Sousa N., Reik W., Pinto L.* and Joana Marques J.* (2021). Tet3 ablation in adult brain neurons increases anxiety-like behavior and regulates cognitive function in mice. Molecular Psychiatry, May;26(5):1445-1457; 10 – Scientific Publication; Mateus-Pinheiro, A., Alves, N.D., Patricio, P., Machado-Santos, A.R., Campos, E., Silva, J., Sardinha, V., Reis, J., Schorle, H., Oliveira, J.F., Ninkovic, J., Sousa, N., and Pinto, L.* (2017). AP2γ controls adult hippocampal neurogenesis and modulates cognitive, but not anxiety or depressive-like behavior. Molecular Psychiatry. Dec 22(12):1725-1734. – Featured article;