Joaquim Cabral

Joaquim M. S. Cabral

full professor, emeritus professor

G-2052-2010

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joaquim.cabral@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Expertise: Enzyme Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Stem Cell Engineering

Short Bio:

Emeritus Professor Joaquim M.S. Cabral has been one of the key players in bridging the fields of enzyme, bioprocess and stem cell engineering. His goals have been to integrate engineering principles with fundamental research in cellular, gene and protein biotechnology and to translate them into applications for Industrial and Medical Bioengineering. Joaquim Cabral supervised 60 PhD students and over 40 postdoctoral and research scientists. Due to his outstanding contribution to IST, he was the first awardee IST Distinguished Professor in 2015. Joaquim Cabral has published 536 peer-reviewed papers (h-factor 59), 11 Books, 94 Book Chapters and 7 patents.

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Research Focus:

Enhancing the field of Enzyme Engineering; Increased the knowledge in the field of Bioseparations and Multiphase Bioconversions; Pioneered the field of Stem Cell Bioprocessing

AMELIE: Anchored Muscle cELls for IncontinencE. H2020-EU.3.1.3. – Treating and managing disease Topic: SC1-BHC-07-2019 – Regenerative medicine: from new insights to new applications (2020 – 2025)
INMARE: Industrial Applications of Marine Enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea. H2020 – BG-2014-2 634486 (2015 – 2019)

“CARDIOSTEM – Engineered cardiac tissues and stem cell-based therapies for cardiovascular applications” MITP-TB/ECE/0013/2013 (2014 – 2017)

“Induction of Immune Tolerance in Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation” Harvard Medical School Portugal -ICT/0001/2011 (2013 – 2016)

Abbasalizadeh, S ; Babaee, S ; Kowsari-Esfahan, R ; Mazidi, Z ; Shi, YC ; Wainer, J; Cabral, JMS; Langer, R; Traverso, G; Baharvand, H “Continuous Production of Highly Functional Vascularized Hepatobiliary Organoids from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells using a Scalable Microfluidic Platform” Advanced Functional Materials DOI 10.1002/adfm.202210233

Dias, TP ; Pinto, SN ; Carvalho, S ; Fernandes, TG; Fernandes, F; Diogo, MM; Peleteiro, MC; Prieto, M; Cabral, JMS “Cost-Effective Mechanical Aggregation of Cardiac Progenitors and Encapsulation in Matrigel Support Self-Organization in a Dynamic Culture Environment” International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 Issue 24 (2022) DOI 10.3390/ijms232415785

Tenreiro, MF; Branco, MA; Cotovio, JP; Cabral, JMS; Fernandes, TG; Diogo, MM “Advancing organoid design through co-emergence, assembly, and bioengineering” Trends in Biotechnology 41, 923-938 (2023) DOI 10.1016/j.tibtech.2022.12.021

Silva, T., P., Sousa-Luís, R., Fernandes, T. G., Bekman, E. P. , Rodrigues, C. A. V. , Vaz, S. H. , Moreira, L. M. , Hashimura Y., Jung, S., Brian Lee, Fonseca, M, C., Cabral, J. M. S., “Transcriptome profiling of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cerebellar organoids reveals 2 faster commitment under dynamic conditions” Biotechnol Bioeng. 118, 2781-2803 (2021)

Jalili-Firoozinezhad, S., Gazzaniga, F.S., Calamari, E.L., Camacho, D.M., Fadel, C.W., Bein, A., Swenor, B., Nestor, B., Cronce, M.J., Tovaglieri, A., Levy, O., Gregory, K.E., Breault, D.T., Cabral, J.M.S., Kasper, D.L., Novak, R., Ingber, D.E., “A complex human gut microbiome cultured in an anaerobic intestine-on-a-chip”, Nat. Biomed. Eng., 3, 520–531 (2019)

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