Inês de Castro Gonçalves de Almada Lobo was born in 1981 in the city of Porto. Inês Gonçalves is married, mother of 3 children and research scientist at INEB – Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica / i3S.
Graduated in Microbiology from Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa in 2003. She got her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto in 2009. Her thesis was based on biomaterials for blood contact, focusing on the development of molecularly engineered self-assembled monolayers and polymers to bind albumin and reduce thrombus formation in cardiovascular devices. The work was developed at INEB (Biomedical Engineering Institute), in Porto, under the supervision of Prof. Mário Barbosa and Dr. Cristina Martins and at UWEB (University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials), in Seattle, under the supervision of Prof. Buddy Ratner.
Between 2010 and 2013 was Post-Doc at INEB and IPATIMUP, focusing her work on biomaterials to prevent gastric cancer, developing glycosylated mucoadhesive microspheres to eliminate gastric infection caused by Helicobacter pylori. In 2013 was hired as researcher by INEB, continuing this line of work, and developing a new area of research using biocompatible and antimicrobial graphene-based biomaterials for different biomedical applications.
Inês Gonçalves is also Invited Assistant Professor at FEUP – Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (since 2010) and at ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (since 2013), teaching in the Integrated Master in BioEngineering (MIB) and in the Biomedical Engineering Master.
She has been involved in 9 research projects, 3 of them as principal investigator, co-organized 9 national/international conferences and is coordinator of the initiative “Porto de Crianças” at INEB that aims to provide primary school children a first contact with science.
Inês C. Gonçalves is the author of 23 papers in peer reviewed international journals and has one filled international patent. She has given over 40 oral communications and presented over 25 posters in international conferences. She has supervised/co-supervised 8 research assistants (2 ongoing), 11 MSc students (2 ongoing) and 4 PhD students (2 ongoing). Her work has been recognized with 6 national and international awards, including "Pulido Valente Science Prize 2006” and "Medal of Honor L'Oreal for women in science 2013".
December, 2017
Selected Publications
DOI: 10.1039/d0bm01699c SCOPUS: 85105463372.
Pereira A.T., Schneider K.H., Henriques P.C., Grasl C., Melo S.F., Fernandes I.P., Kiss H., Martins M.C.L., Bergmeister H., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04028 SCOPUS: 85111180304.
Henriques P.C., Pereira A.T., Bogas D., Fernandes J.R., Pinto A.M., Magalhães F.D., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.04.085 SCOPUS: 85105267175.
Borges I., Henriques P.C., Gomes R.N., Pinto A.M., Pestana M., Magalhães F.D., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.3390/nano10020349 SCOPUS: 85079714581.
Costa-Almeida R., Bogas D., Fernandes J.R., Timochenco L., Silva F.A.L.S., Meneses J., Gonçalves I.C., Magalhães F.D., Pinto A.M.,
DOI: 10.3390/POLYM12081840 SCOPUS: 85090400583.
Henriques P.C., Pereira A.T., Pires A.L., Pereira A.M., Magalhães F.D., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b21841 SCOPUS: 85084379485.
Melo S.F., Neves S.C., Pereira A.T., Borges I., Granja P.L., Magalhães F.D., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2019.110537 SCOPUS: 85077755863.
Pereira A.T., Henriques P.C., Costa P.C., Martins M.C.L., Magalhães F.D., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2019.107819 SCOPUS: 85072771699.
Gomes R.N., Borges I., Pereira A.T., Maia A.F., Pestana M., Magalhães F.D., Pinto A.M., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2018.06.044 SCOPUS: 85050155850.
Henriques P.C., Borges I., Pinto A.M., Magalhães F.D., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2018.02.027 SCOPUS: 85043307316.
Pinto A.M., Goncalves C., Sousa D.M., Ferreira A.R., Moreira J.A., Goncalves I.C., Magalhães F.D.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.11.076 SCOPUS: 84959449298.
Henriques P.C., Costa L.M., Seabra C.L., Antunes B., Silva-Carvalho R., Junqueira-Neto S., Maia A.F., Oliveira P., Magalhães A., Reis C.A., Gartner F., Touati E., Gomes J., Costa P., Martins M.C., Gonçalves I.C.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2020.06.035 SCOPUS: 85088806369.
Parreira P., Monteiro C., Graça V., Gomes J., Maia S., Gomes P., Gonçalves I.C., Martins M.C.L.,
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53918-4 SCOPUS: 85075982293.
Seabra C.L., Nunes C., Brás M., Gomez-Lazaro M., Reis C.A., Gonçalves I.C., Reis S., Martins M.C.L.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2018.02.030 SCOPUS: 85044023662.
Seabra C.L., Nunes C., Gomez-Lazaro M., Correia M., Machado J.C., Gonçalves I.C., Reis C.A., Reis S., Martins M.C.L.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2017.01.014 SCOPUS: 85010199517.
Gonçalves I.C., Magalhães A., Costa A.M.S., Oliveira J.R., Henriques P.C., Gomes P., Reis C.A., Martins M.C.L.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2016.01.029 SCOPUS: 84959468144.
Gonçalves I.C., Henriques P.C., Seabra C.L., Martins M.C.L.,
DOI: 10.1586/14787210.2014.930663 SCOPUS: 84904003586.
Gonçalves I.C., Martins M.C.L., Barbosa M.A., Ratner B.D.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2004.10.006 SCOPUS: 11144307278.
Rodrigues S.N., Gonçalves I.C., Martins M.C.L., Barbosa M.A., Ratner B.D.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2006.06.010 SCOPUS: 33746216936.
Gonçalves I.C., Martins M.C.L., Barbosa M.A., Naeemi E., Ratner B.D.,
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.32011 SCOPUS: 66249128976.
Gonçalves I.C., Martins M.C.L., Barbosa M.A., Ratner B.D.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.06.025 SCOPUS: 68549112719.
Barbosa J.N., Martins M.C.L., Freitas S.C., Gonçalves I.C., Águas A.P., Barbosa M.A.,
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.32480 SCOPUS: 77649225392.
Parreira P., Magalhaes A., Gonaçalves I.C., Gomes J., Vidal R., Reis C.A., Leckband D.E., Martins M.C.L.,
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.33178 SCOPUS: 80055008019.
Gonçalves I.C., Martins M.C.L., Barbosa J.N., Oliveira P., Barbosa M.A., Ratner B.D.,
DOI: 10.1007/s10856-011-4381-9 SCOPUS: 80755133542.
Fischer M., Baptista C.P., Gonçalves I.C., Ratner B.D., Sperling C., Werner C., Martins C.L., Barbosa M.A.,
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.07.007 SCOPUS: 84865188580.