Raquel Oliveira Rodrigues
Nanomedicine · International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Biography
Raquel Rodrigues is a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at INL, with a secondment at Harvard Medical School (Brigham Women’s Hospital, USA), with the project BrainChip4Med, and a scientific associate at CMEMS/U.Minho with an individual CEEC for junior researcher granted by FCT. She obtained her PhD from the University of Porto in 2018, winning the Fraunhofer Best Portuguese PhD Thesis competition in Biomedical Engineering. She has been enrolled in 12 R&D projects, 3 as PI and 1 co-PI, published 28 papers in specialized international journals, 6 book chapters, 4 papers in conference proceedings, 2 cover articles and 1 WO Patent. She has experience in the multidisciplinary field of biotechnology, nanomedicine, microfluidics, biosensors and organ-on-a-chip, acquired at highly recognised institutions, namely Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Fulbright Research Grant) and NASA Ames Research Centre (International Internship).
Education
2018 - PhD, Chemical and Biological Engineering (Faculty of Engineering/ Chemical Department, University of Porto, Portugal) 2012 - MSc, Biomedical Technology (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal) 2007 - BSc, Biotechnological Engineering (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal)
Recent Scopus Publications
- Numerical assessment of the hydrogel physical properties’ effect on oxygen gradients in an organ-on-a-chip biosystem
- Flow assessment and analysis of oxygen transport in an organ-on-chip platform
- Optical Sensor System to Monitor the pH of Circulating Media on Biomimetic Microsystems
- Recent advances and perspectives of MicroNeedles for biomedical applications
- Computational and experimental advances in liver-on-a-chip technology for cancer research: a systematic review
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4493-2654
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5P5s7YEAAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56492240500