Prof. Susana R Sousa

Susana Sousa graduated in Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) in 1986. In 1988, she started to work as a researcher at Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (INEB). Her M.Sc. studies were performed at INEB, and she obtained her Master's in Materials Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 1992. Her Ph.D. studies were also conducted at INEB and at the Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC), and in July 2007, she obtained her Ph.D. in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at FEUP. She has been a Professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP, IPP) since 1993. Her major research interests are focused on the adsorption of extracellular matrix proteins/peptides on 3D matrices to be used in tissue regeneration as well as on-target molecules as delivery systems for metastatic bone tumor study, as well as bone infection control. This includes the following topics: design of 3D scaffolds of nanohydroxyapatite/collagen nanofibers, in vitro development of co-culture models to mimic bone tumor or bone infection microenvironment, and surface characterization of biomaterials.