Carla Lopes

Dr. Carla Lopes graduated in Biomedical Engineering in 2010. Her Ph.D. was focused on modeling neurodegenerative diseases first by using transgenic mouse models and later patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) to understand metaboli and mitochondrial abnormalities. In 2015, she worked as a Post Doc supported by a grant from a project financed by The Luso-American Development Foundation Life Science 2020 at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. In this project, she worked mainly on metabolic and mitochondrial abnormalities in fibroblasts, iPSC and neural stem cells obtained from late-onset HD and genetically corrected counterparts. In 2018, Dr. Lopes received a grant funded by FCT as a Principal Investigator "iPS cells-derived exosomes - impact on mitochondrial (dys)function in Huntington's disease and potential nanodelivery system for microRNA-based therapeutics". In 2023 she was hired as an Assistant researcher at the Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing, Coimbra.