João Mano

João F. Mano, PhD in Chemistry, DSc in Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells, is a full professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Aveiro Portugal. He is the director of both Master and Doctoral Degrees in Biotechnology at the Univ. of Aveiro. He belongs to the associate laboratory CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials where he is directing the COMPASS Research Group. His current research interests include the use of biomaterials and cells towards the development of transdisciplinary concepts especially aimed at being used in regenerative and personalised medicine. In particular, biomimetic and nano/micro-technology approaches have been applied to natural-derived biomaterials and surfaces in order to obtain biomedical devices with improved structural and multi-functional properties, or in the engineering of microenvironments to control cell behaviour and organization, to be used in therapies or in drug screening.