Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
Hassan Bousbaa, UNIPRO - Oral Pathology and Rehabilitation Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific Interests: targeted anticancer therapy; targeting mitosis for cancer therapy; antimitotic agents; biological evaluation of natural and synthetic compounds; cancer biomarkers
SECTION EDITORS
Saman Warnakulasuriya, King's College London and WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Cancer, UK.
Scientific interests: oral health, cancer
Bruno Sarmento, INEB - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), University of Porto, Portugal.
Scientific Interests: biomedicine and biomedical sciences; biomaterials; development of new drug delivery systems using colloidal nanoparticles; physical and chemical characterization of pharmaceutical dosage forms; cell-culture models for drug absorption studies; in vitro and in vivo models of drug bioavailability; classical pharmaceutical dosage forms
Maria Elizabeth Tiritan, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal.
Scientific Interests: organic and pharmaceutical chemistry; chromatography; chirality; organic environmental pollutants
Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira, TOXRUN - Toxicology Research University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific Interests: toxicology and pharmacology; psychoactive substances; pesticides; medicines; preclinical, clinical and forensic aspects
Júlio C. M. Souza, Center for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (CMEMS-UMINHO), University of Minho, Portugal.
Scientific Interests: dental implants; oral biofilms; anti-biofilms; bio-tribocorrosion; titanium implants; material characterization; mechanical properties; biomaterials; corrosion; materials; microstructure; mechanical behavior of materials; mechanical testing; surface analysis
Quezia Bezerra Cass, Department of Chemistry, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.
Scientific interests: enantioresolution of chiral compounds by liquid chromatography; analysis of small molecules by direct injection of complex matrices; quality control of natural products, as raw materials or as phytotherapic medicines; immobilized enzyme-based assays for screening ligands from natural and synthetic libraries
Bruno Henriques, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.
Scientific interests: biomaterials; bioceramics; cellular ceramics; dental materials; laser structuring; zirconia; bioactive glasses; calcium phosphates; additive manufacturing; tissue engineering, traditional ceramics, cellular ceramics, functionally graded materials
Victor Bolanos-Garcia, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom.
Scientific interests: cell cycle regulation; mitosis; spindle assembly checkpoint; structural biology; protein complexes; protein biophysics; drug discovery
Nuno Vieira Brito, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific interests: veterinary sciences; animal welfare; biodiversity; productive performance; local resources; ethics in animals
Arthur R. G. Cortes, Department of Dental Surgery, Faculty of Dental Surgery, University of Malta, Malta
Scientific interests: digital dentistry; bone imaging; Oral Implantology
Célia F. Rodrigues, TOXRUN - Toxicology Research University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal
Scientific Interests: biofilms; microbiology; fungi; polymicrobial infections; antimicrobial resistance; alternative treatments
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
Madalena Pinto, CIIMAR, Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal.
Scientific interests: drug discovery and drug design; chemistry of natural products; organic synthesis; chiral stationary phases (HPLC); molecular recognition-artificial receptors
José das Neves, INEB - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), University of Porto, Portugal.
Scientific interests: drug delivery; HIV Prevention; microbicides; nanomedicine; pharmaceutics
Odília Queirós, UNIPRO - Oral Pathology and Rehabilitation Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific Interests: cancer; metabolism; Warburg; monocarboxylate transporters; multidrug resistance
Sara Ricardo, I3S/IPATIMUP - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde/Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Scientific interests: differentiation and cancer; gynaecological oncology; ovarian cancer biology; drug repurpusing
Paolo De Marco, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific interests: microbiology; microbiota analysis; genomics; metagenomics; infection
Cláudia Ribeiro, TOXRUN - Toxicology Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific interests: chromatographic analytical methods; sample preparation procedures; environmental research; endocrine disrupting compounds; environmental pollutants
José Carlos Andrade, TOXRUN - Toxicology Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific interests: probiotics; antioxidants; nutraceuticals; drug delivery; microencapsulation
Teresa Pinho, UNIPRO - Oral Pathology and Rehabilitation Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific interests: orthodontics; odontopediatics; cranio-dento-facial disorders; maxillary lateral incisors agenesis (MLIA); temporomandibular disorders
Honorina Cidade, CIIMAR, Laboratory of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal.
Scientific interests: medicinal chemistry; organic synthesis; natural products; heterocycles; anticancer; antioxidant
Luís Monteiro, UNIPRO - Oral Pathology and Rehabilitation Research Unit, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Scientific Interests: oral cancer; oral leukoplakia; prognostic markers; laser; immunohistochemistry
Emília Sousa, CIIMAR, Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal.
Scientific interests: medicinal chemistry; computational docking; organic synthesis; structural elucidation of small molecules by spectroscopic techniques and in preclinical studies related with solubility; stability and metabolism
Copy Editor
Joana Barbosa, Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Production Editor
Virgínia Gonçalves, One Health Toxicology Research Unit (1H-TOXRUN), Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
Administrative Editor
Rui Azevedo, Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde (IUCS), CESPU, Portugal.
