In 2009, Joana Barros got a degree in Genetics and Biotechnology and in 2011 she completed an MSc in Biotechnology for Health Sciences, both at the Universidade Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD). In 2019, she finished PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), in collaboration with Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (INEB)/Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto – Associação (i3S) and University of Minho (UMinho), through a fully funded project supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, SFRH/BD/102148/2014).
In addition to her academic career, she has also worked as a fellow researcher in several international/national founded projects (e.g. NoMic2Bone (NORTE‐01‐0247‐FEDER‐017905), BioTherapies (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000012), SUSCLEAN (Grant ID: 287514, involving 8 EU countries), and NaNOBiofilm (PTDC/SAU-BMA/111233/2009). She has also been working as External Collaborator at Research Units at USC (Dept. Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Techn.), FEUP (LEPABE), FMDUP (Bone Lab) and FFUL (H&TR Center).
She was actively involved in the writing/developing of several projects: FCT- I&D (ongoing, CoPi), La Caixa (applied), IACOBUS-Publicações (applied) and Covid-19 - Projetos de I&D Empresas ANI (granted). Regarding outreach activities, she participated in several meetings/course/workshops and an organization/evaluation of conferences. Besides, she has voluntarily involved in COVID-19 Task Force from i3S (“virus inactivation" and “serological testing” teams).
Currently, she is Postdoctoral Researcher at INEB, integrating two granted Covid-19 - Projetos de I&D Empresas ANI (SM4S and Safety4Guest) projects. Since finished PhD (2019), she supervises 1 MSc and 1 BSc students. She is member of Management Committee representing Portugal and vice-leader of WG1 - Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications of Aerogels, both in COST Action AERoGELS CA18215 (until 2023, involving 37 countries).
She published 19 (10 as 1st author) peer-reviewed papers in international indexed journals (h-index 12, 341 citations, Google Scholar), 2 abstracts in international refereed journal proceedings, 1 abstract in an international online lecture library. Her work was presented in several international/national meetings through oral (4) and poster (13) communications, and 2 invited lectures. As a result, she won 5 awards, Conference Grant for Early Career Investigator, IACOBUS Papers Award (ii and III), and Honorable Mention: 2nd Science Communication in Microbiology.
Joana Barros research has been focused on the development of multifunctional approaches, based on anti-infective biomaterials and drug-delivery systems, as biological and bioactive platforms, for efficient human infection treatment
Selected Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b17375 SCOPUS: 85041364600.
Barros J., Grenho L., Fontenente S., Manuel C.M., Nunes O.C., Melo L.F., Monteiro F.J., Ferraz M.P.,
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.35925 SCOPUS: 84996553212.
López-Iglesias C., Barros J., Ardao I., Monteiro F.J., Alvarez-Lorenzo C., Gómez-Amoza J.L., García-González C.A.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.10.012 SCOPUS: 85054721321.
Zegre M., Barros J., Ribeiro I.A.C., Santos C., Caetano L.A., Gonçalves L., Monteiro F.J., Ferraz M.P., Bettencourt A.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2022.121832 SCOPUS: 85132453603.
Barros J.A.R., Melo L.D.R.d., Silva R.A.R.d., Ferraz M.P., Azeredo J.C.V.d.R., Pinheiro V.M.d.C., Colaço B.J.A., Fernandes M.H.R., Gomes P.d.S., Monteiro F.J.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2019.102145 SCOPUS: 85077500728.
Barros J., Ferraz M.P., Azeredo J., Fernandes M.H., Gomes P.S., Monteiro F.J.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2019.109985 SCOPUS: 85070098816.
Barros J., Melo L.D.R., Poeta P., Igrejas G., Ferraz M.P., Azeredo J., Monteiro F.J.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2019.06.007 SCOPUS: 85069824931.
Skwira A., Szewczyk A., Barros J., Laranjeira M., Monteiro F.J., Sadej R., Prokopowicz M.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2023.123408 SCOPUS: 85172027917.