Vera SousaUniversity of Aveiro | UA · CICECO - Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials
Vera Sousa
PhD student
biomaterials; tissue regeneration; polymer chemistry; supramolecular biomaterials
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Introduction
Vera Catarina Ferreira de Sousa earned her Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry in 2017 and Master's degree in Molecular Biomedicine in 2019 both from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. In 2021, she started her PhD scholarship in Chemistry at the COMPASS Research Group, which belongs to the Associate Laboratory CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials at the University of Aveiro, under the supervision of Prof. João Mano, Dr. João and Prof. E. W. “Bert” Meijer.
Additional affiliations
February 2020 - present
Position
- Master's Student
Description
- I have been working on the chemical functionalization of marine-origin macromolecules with biomolecules using different chemical reactions and on their chemical characterization via 1D and 2D NMR, ATR-FTIR and UV-Vis spectroscopy and SEM.
Education
October 2017 - December 2019
November 2014 - September 2017
Publications
Publications (6)
Dynamic G-quadruplex supramolecular hydrogels have aroused great interest in a broad range of bioapplications. However, neither the development of native extracellular matrix (ECM)-derived natural biopolymer-functionalized G-quadruplex hydrogels nor their use to create perfusable self-supporting hydrogels has been explored to date, despite their in...
DNA is one of the most exciting biomolecules in nature for developing supramolecular biofunctional nanoarchitectures owing to the highly specific and selective interactions between complementary Watson‐Crick base pairing. Herein, simple and one‐pot synthetic procedures have been implemented for producing a library of DNA nucleobase derivatives endo...
The synthesis of new porphyrin-indazole hybrids by a Knoevenagel condensation of 2-formyl-5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin and N-methyl-nitroindazole derivatives is reported. The target compounds were isolated in moderate to good yields (32-57%) and some of the isolated porphyrin-indazole conjugates showed good performance in the generation of singl...
The few approved disinfection techniques for blood derivatives promote damage in the blood components, representing risks for the transfusion receptor. Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) seems to be a promising approach for the photoinactivation of pathogens in blood, but only three photosensitizers (PSs) have been approved, methylene blue (...
Blood is an essential resource but is yet a source of microbial infections transmission. Currently, the approved method, combined use of a solvent tri(n-butyl)phosphate and a detergent Tween 80 mixture to inactivate microorganisms can only be used for plasma or protein concentrates. Even more, these chemicals must be removed after treatment because...
Blood is an essential resource but is yet a source of microbial infections transmission. Consequently, the ability to disinfect blood and its derivatives has assumed great importance. Currently, the most effective method for inactivating microorganisms, which can be only used in plasma or protein concentrates, is the combined use of a solvent tri(n...
