Carla Cunha is an Assistant Researcher at i3S. She obtained her PhD in Biology in 2007 from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, as a fellow of the GABBA PhD programme, in collaboration with the San Raffaele Research Institute, Milan. Since then, she worked in Biomedical Engineering in Italy (Università di Milano-Bicocca and Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics), USA (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Australia (Garvan Institute of Medical Research), gathering expertise in self-assembling peptides, hydrogels and calcium phosphates, in combination with stem cells, for engineering of nerve, osteochondral and bone tissues. In 2012 she joined i3S/INEB and since then she is dedicated to the preclinical validation of intervertebral disc therapeutic strategies.
Selected Publications
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22179609 SCOPUS: 85114252859.
Silva A.J., Ferreira J.R., Cunha C., Corte-Real J.V., Bessa-Gonçalves M., Barbosa M.A., Santos S.G., Gonçalves R.M.,
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01508 SCOPUS: 85069037178.
Cunha C., Silva A.J., Pereira P., Vaz R., Gonçalves R.M., Barbosa M.A.,
DOI: 10.1186/s13075-018-1743-4 SCOPUS: 85056278077.
Cunha C., Almeida C.R., Almeida M.I., Silva A.M., Molinos M., Lamas S., Pereira C.L., Teixeira G.Q., Monteiro A.T., Santos S.G., Gonçalves R.M., Barbosa M.A.,
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2016-0033 SCOPUS: 85017568310.
Cunha C., Lamas S., Gonçalves R.M., Barbosa M.A.,
DOI: 10.1002/jor.23114 SCOPUS: 85005992195.
Cunha C., Panseri S., Sandri M., Marcacci M., Tampieri A.,
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-7021(12)70098-6 SCOPUS: 84861656518.