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Helena Maria Pires Gaspar Tomás

Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering

Penteada University Campus , Floor 0

https://cqm.uma.pt

lenat@staff.uma.pt

(+351) 291 705 110 / 5110

Biographical Notes

Helena Tomás graduated in Chemical Engineering/Biotechnology (IST, Lisbon, Portugal) and has a PhD degree in Technological Chemistry/Biomaterials (1996, University of Lisbon, Portugal). Currently, she is associate professor at the University of Madeira (Portugal) where she is the Coordinator of the Chemistry Department in the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering and Diretor of the Materials Research Group at CQM-Centro de Química da Madeira. She authored/co-authored 63 papers and 3 book chapters (h index= 27, total citations:3060, average citations per article: 44). Her current research work is mainly devoted to the development of nanogels, clay-based and dendrimer-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications (drug/gene delivery, theranostics and tissue regeneration).

Publications

- Biological Effects in Cancer Cells of Mono- and Bidentate Conjugation of Cisplatin on PAMAM Dendrimers: A Comparative Study, Camacho C., Maciel D., Tomás H., Rodrigues J., Pharmaceutics, 2023, 21

- Dendrimers and Dendrimer-based Nano-objects for Oncology Applications, in New Trends in Smart Nanostructured Biomaterials in Health Sciences, Helena Tomás, João Rodrigues, 978-0-323-85671-3, Elsevier Science, 2023

- 12th International Meeting of the SPCE-TC, Braga, 12th International Meeting of the SPCE-TC, Braga, 2022

- Antitumor Efficacy of Doxorubicin-Loaded Electrospun Attapulgite-Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Composite Nanofibers, Wang Z., Zhao Y., Shen M., Tomás H., Zhou B., Shi X., J Funct Biomater, 2022, 12

- Dendrimer nanoplatforms for veterinary medicine applications: A concise overview, Mignani, S., Shi, X., Rodrigues, J., Tomás, H., Majoral, J.-P., Drug Discov Today, 2022, 10

- Development and challenges of cells- and materials-based tooth regeneration, Fu Z., Zhuang Y., Cui J., Sheng R., Tomás H., Rodrigues J., Zhao, B., Wang X., Lin, K, Engineered Regeneration, 2022, 18

- Fucoidan-based delivery system for cisplatin in glioblastoma cells, Ana Duarte, Filipe Olim, Helena Tomás, 9th CQM Annual meeting, 2022

- Fucoidan/dendrimer nanoparticles and their angiogenic properties, Filipe Olim, Ana Rute Neves, Irene Rodriguez-Clemente, Valentín Ceña, Helena Tomás, 9th CQM Annual meeting, 2022

- Fucoidan/dendrimer nanoparticles for glioblastoma treatment: anti-angiogenic behaviour and siRNA delivery studies, Filipe Olim, Ana Rute Neves, Irene Rodriguez-Clemente, Valentín Ceña, Helena Tomás, Final CA17140 Conference, 2022

- Fucoidan/Dendrimer nanoparticles for glioblastoma treatment: in vitro siRNA delivery studies, Filipe Olim, Ana Rute Neves, Valentín Ceña, Helena Tomás, 1st CA17140 STSM Conference, 2022

Academic Qualifications

- PhD in Química Tecnológica, 1996, Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciê

- Undergraduate Degree in Engenharia Química, 1989, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa/Instituto Superior Técnico