Lino Ferreira
UC-Biotech
Biography
Lino Ferreira is Investigator Coordinator at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Coimbra, the director of the Biomaterials and Stem Cell-Based Therapeutics research group at Center of Neurosciences and Cell Biology (CNC), at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the CNC coordinator of the MIT-Portugal Program. His current interests include the development of nanomaterials to track and manipulate exogenous and endogenous stem cells, and the development of 3D biomaterials to create synthetic stem cell niches in order to study and maximize the therapeutic potential of stem cells. For his work, he has received an European Research Council and an Era Chair prize.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Biomaterials Science