Catarina Gomes successfully defended her PhD thesis (January 9th 2025) Catarina’s thesis, titled “Immunocompetent 3D Human Central Nervous System Models: A Novel Approach for Preclinical Development of Gene Therapies”, was conducted at iBET – Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica’s Advanced Cell Models Lab under the supervision of Catarina Brito. Part of her PhD work was conducted within the scope of Accelerating Research & Development for Advanced Therapies (ARDAT).
Her research focused on developing advanced 3D human CNS models using hiPSC-derived neurospheroids produced in bioreactor systems, enabling the study of neuroimmune responses to rAAV-based gene therapies. For more information follow the link Catarina Gomes.
Congratulations Dr Gomes!