Bruno Sarmento
Associated Researcher
INEB-National Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Portugal
Biography
Bruno Sarmento graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Porto (UP) in 2002 and completed a PhD in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology at UP in 2007, in collaboration with Queens University (CA), University of Copenhagen (DK) and University of Santiago de Compostela (ES). From 2007 to 2012 he held a Post-Doc position at UP, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, investigating insulin intestinal absorption mechanisms using in vitro models. In 2008 he was appointed Assistant Professor at IUCS. He is currently visiting professor of the Post-Graduate School, UniOeste (BR). In 2012 he became Associated Researcher at INEB, where established an independent team. He was appointed as Assistant Researched at i3S (Institute for Investigation and Innovation in Health)/INEB in 2016. So far, he has supervised/co-supervised 8 Post-Docs, 29 PhD students (9 completed) and 23 MSc students (19 completed), and 6 researcher assistants. He also co-founded Inovapotek in 2008, and is member of its advisory board.
Research Interest
His current research is focused on the development of functionalized nanomedicines and their application in the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields. In particular, nanoformulations of biopharmaceutical drugs with interest in diabetes, cancer and infectious diseases. He has also specialized in mucosal tissue engineering models to validate functionalized nanomedicines and to perform in vitro/in vivo correlation.