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Ana Sofia Matias da Silva
Auxiliary Researcher
e-mail:
sofiamsilva@ua.pt
department:
Chemistry
group:
5 - biomedical and biomimetic materials
direct url:
https://www.ciceco.ua.pt/sofiasilva
Latest News
New funding for CICECO young researchers
2022-01-04
Five project proposals were financed with a 20 k€ grant.
Microfabricated surfaces inspired by the pollination phenomenon of bees
2019-03-27
Lúcia Santos, Sofia Silva, Clara Correia, and João Mano publish their findings on Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal.
ongoing scientific supervisions
Lúcia Isabel Ferreira Santos
PhD Student
Maria Cândida Balão Mendes
PhD Student
Projects
In Progress (1)
Concluded (1)
Bioinspired tile-matching to create ultrastructured bone microtissues in a close-to-native fashion (TETRISSUE)
Colonizacao 3D de celulas em hidrogeis de origem marinha atraves de padronizacao por microcanais para regeneracao ossea (PROMENADE)
publications
Papers (21)
Books Chapters (1)
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Nanogold POxylation: towards always-on fluorescent lung cancer targeting
A. Sofia Silva, Marta C. Silva, Sónia P. Miguel, Vasco D. B. Bonifácio, Ilídio J. Correia and Ana Aguiar-Ricardo
2016,
RSC advances
, 6, 33631-33635 .
Design of oligoaziridine-PEG coatings for efficient nanogold cellular biotagging
A. Sofia Silva, Vasco D. B. Bonifácio, Vivek P. Raje, Paula S. Branco, Paulo F. B. Machado, Ilídio J. Correia and Ana Aguiar-Ricardo
2015,
RSC Advances
, 519, 10733-10738 .
Sustainable strategies for nano-in-micro particle engineering for pulmonary delivery
A. Sofia Silva, Márcia T. Tavares & Ana Aguiar-Ricardo
2014,
Journal of Nanoparticle Research volume
, 16,
Novel Methodology Based on Biomimetic Superhydrophobic Substrates to Immobilize Cells and Proteins in Hydrogel Spheres for Applications in Bone Regeneration
Ana Catarina Lima, Patrícia Batista, Tiago A.M. Valente, A. Sofia Silva, Ilídio J. Correia, and João F. Mano
2013,
Tissue Engineering Part A
, 19,
An analysis and validation pipeline for large-scale RNAi-based screens
Michael Plank, Guang Hu, A. Sofia Silva, Shona H. Wood, Emily E. Hesketh, Georges Janssens, André Macedo, João Pedro de Magalhães & George M. Church
2013,
Scientific Reports
, 33,
Gathering insights on disease etiology from gene expression profiles of healthy tissues
A Sofia Silva, Shona H Wood, Sipko van Dam, Sven Berres, Anne McArdle, João Pedro de Magalhães
2011,
Bioinformatics
, Volume 27, Issue 23, 3305
Cell-based soft biomaterials
A. Sofia Silva, Lúcia F. Santos, Mariana B. Oliveira and João F. Mano
Soft Matter for Biomaterial Applications
2021,
Sponsors
New funding for CICECO young researchers
Microfabricated surfaces inspired by the pollination phenomenon of bees
Cell-based soft biomaterials 
