Teresa Esteves

assistant researcher

I-4696-2015

iBB Group: 2brg

teresa.esteves@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Expertise: Material synthesis and characterization, Polymer chemistry, Molecular imprinting, Targeted drug delivery, Separation processes

Short Bio:

Teresa Esteves has a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Lisbon. She is an enthusiastic researcher giving a valuable contribution to bioengineering and biosciences. In her PhD she focused on the development of targeted radioprobes for cancer diagnostic and therapy. Afterwards, she became focused on the development of processes and highly specific materials for diverse applications, spanning from challenging separations to targeted controlled drug release using molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), high affinity adsorbers and functionalized nanoparticles. She also engaged in the challenge of addressing the valorisation of waste streams from food industry, with isolation of molecules of interest.

Research Focus:

Development of new targeting materials (nanoparticles, MIPs) to address challenging unmet needs in cancer therapy and separation processes.

eOnco – Wirelessly activated multifunctional nanobioelectronics to enable novel oncological therapies (2022.07252.PTDC)

Biorg4WasteVal+ – Bioorganic novel approaches for food processing wastewater treatment and valorisation: Lupanine case study (M.ERA-NET: 278)

SelectHost – Innovative and efficient platforms for the removal of genotoxic impurities (PTDC/QEQ-PRS/4157/2014)

GenoSep – Removal of genotoxic impurities from active pharmaceutical ingredients (PTDC/QEQ-PRS/2757/2012)

Resina, L., Alemán, C., Ferreira, F.C., & Esteves, T. (2023, July 21). Protein-imprinted polymers: How far have “plastic antibodies” come? Biotechnol. Adv., 68, 108220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108220

Resina, L., Hauadi, K.E., Sans, J., Esteves, T., Ferreira, F.C., Pérez-Madrigal, M., & Alemán, C. (2023, February 23). Electroresponsive and pH-sensitive hydrogel as carrier for controlled chloramphenicol release. Biomacromolecules, 24, 1432-1444. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.2c01442

Hauadi, K.E., Resina, L., Zanuy, D., Esteves, T., Ferreira, F.C., Pérez-Madrigal, M.M., & Alemán, C. (2022, October 13). Dendritic self-assembled structures from therapeutic charged pentapeptides. Langmuir, 38, 12905-12914. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02010

Esteves, T., Ferreira, F.A., Mota, A.T., Sánchez-González, Á., Mestres, A.G., Andrade, K.H.S., Afonso, C.A.M., & Ferreira, F.C. (2022, April 22). Greener strategy for lupanine purification from lupin bean wastewaters using a molecularly imprinted polymer. ACS Appl. Mater. Interf., 14, 18910-18921. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c02053

Esteves, T., Mota, A.T., Barbeitos, C., Andrade, K., Afonso, C.A.M., & Ferreira, F.C. (2020, July 28). A study on lupin beans process wastewater nanofiltration treatment and lupanine recovery. J. Clean. Prod., 277, 123349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123349

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