Diana Gaspar
Diana Gaspar graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Porto in 2006 and obtained her PhD degree in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Porto in 2010. Since 2011, she is a young researcher based at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (iMM Lisboa, Portugal), where she currently focuses on the study and development of biologically active peptides as new anticancer drugs. Her present research interests include cell-to-cell physical and chemical communication in metastatic cancer combining a wide variety of experimental methodologies from biophysical to imaging techniques, such as atomic force microscopy (AFM). In 2014 her work in biomechanics of breast cancer was awarded with the 2nd Edition of the Portuguese Breast Cancer Association - Associação Laço Research Grant 2014 for the study of breast cancer cells passage through the blood-brain-barrier and dissemination into the brain.
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