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Name: Ana Dias

E-mail: adias@ipatimup.pt

Ana Dias

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Junior Researcher of Immunology, Cancer and Glycomedicine

Short CV

Ana Dias is graduated in Biology by the University of Coimbra (2010) and she went abroad one year (under the Erasmus programme) to UCD in Dublin, Ireland. Ana Dias obtained MSc degree by the University of Lisbon (2012) and developed her master thesis about cancer and metabolism at the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of Univ. Porto (IPATIMUP), under supervision of Prof. Valdemar Máximo. In 2013, she got a Fellowship funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in a project related with Oncobiology and Glycobiology, at IPATIMUP, under supervision of Prof. Salomé Pinho. She developed her PhD degree (2014-2018) at i3S/IPATIMUP where she has been enrolled in a translational research project in collaboration with hospitals. The main focus of her research work was to investigate the role of glycosylation in pathogenesis of IBD envisioning development of new therapies.
Ana Dias has also developed research work in different international institutions: National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB), Ireland (2010); RIKEN, Japan (2014), University Zagreb, Croatia (2015) and SciLifeLab, Sweden (2017).
Ana Dias is co-author of high impact peer-reviewed publications, one book chapter and co-inventor of 2 patents (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0060-2872).

Highlights

• The role of glycosylation modifications in gastrointestinal disease, particularly on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and in human colon cancer.
• Glycobiology and disease
• Translational research

First Author

1. Dias AM, Correia A, Pereira MS, Almeida CR, Alves I, Pinto V, Catarino TA, Mendes N, Leander M, Oliva-Teles MT, Maia L, Delerue-Matos C, Taniguchi N, Lima M, Pedroto I, Marcos-Pinto R, Lago P, Reis CA, Vilanova M, Pinho SS

Metabolic control of T cell immune response through glycans in inflammatory bowel disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115: E4651-E4660, 2018. [Article]

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1720409115 PMID: 29720442.

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2. Dias AM, Almeida CR, Reis CA, Pinho SS

Studying T Cells N-Glycosylation by Imaging Flow Cytometry. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 1389: 167-76, 2016. []

doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3302-0_11 PMID: 27460244.

3. Dias AM, Dourado J, Lago P, Cabral J, Marcos-Pinto R, Salgueiro P, Almeida CR, Carvalho S, Fonseca S, Lima M, Vilanova M, Dinis-Ribeiro M, Reis CA, Pinho SS

Dysregulation of T cell receptor N-glycosylation: a molecular mechanism involved in ulcerative colitis. Human molecular genetics 23: 2416-27, 2014. [Article]

doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddt632 PMID: 24334766.

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