Mrs. Manuela Ferreira Brás

Maria Manuela Ferreira Brás graduated in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (1995) from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal. She obtained her M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (2001) at FEUP. Currently, she is the Head of the Biointerfaces and Nanotechnology scientific platform at the Institute of Research and Innovation in Health (i3S) and, at the same time, a Ph.D. student of the Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering, also at FEUP. Her Ph.D. goal is to study the mechanobiology of human cancer cells using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Her previous and current research was/is related to the use of AFM as a tool to study cell and tissue biophysics, mainly using the mechanical properties quantification as an eventual biomarker in cancer disease diagnosis.