Research group
Nanoplatforms for Life
Position
Academic Staff
Ana Figueiras is Researcher and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy in the University of Coimbra. Her main objective is to combine know-how development during her Ph.D thesis and new strategies for successful drug delivery, especially in what concerns the use of block copolymers and micellar systems in cancer pathologies. She has published some pioneering works in micelleplexes as nanosystems for gene delivery (68 papers in international peer reviewed journals, 2 books and 15 book chapters), corresponding to a h-index of 29.
Representative Publications
Current progress on microRNAs-based therapeutics in neurodegenerative diseases
10.1002/wrna.1409
Poloxamers, poloxamines and polymeric micelles: Definition, structure and therapeutic applications in cancer
10.1007/s10965-017-1426-x
miR-145-loaded micelleplexes as a novel therapeutic strategy to inhibit proliferation and migration of osteosarcoma cells
10.1016/j.ejps.2018.07.021
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition and microRNAs: Challenges and future perspectives in oral cancer
10.1002/hed.25381
Nanomedicine in osteosarcoma therapy: Micelleplexes for delivery of nucleic acids and drugs toward osteosarcoma-targeted therapies
10.1016/j.ejpb.2019.10.013
Nanomedicine in osteosarcoma therapy: micelleplexes for co-delivery of nucleic acids and drugs for osteosarcoma-targeted therapies
Micelleplex-based nucleic acid therapeutics: From targeted stimuli-responsiveness to nanotoxicity and regulation
10.1016/j.ejps.2020.105461
