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Ana Rita Pedrosa

Queen Mary University of London, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidade de Lisboa

ORCID iD 0000-0002-4421-6968
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About

I am a CRUK RadNET City of London post-doctoral career development fellow working on a collaborative project between Hodivala-Dilke’s lab at the BCI and the Sahai’s lab at the Crick Institute in London, UK. I did my PhD in Portugal in the lab of Prof. Antonio Duarte, investigating the role of vascular endothelial-cell Jagged1 in physiological and tumour angiogenesis (Pedrosa et al., ATVB, 2015, Pedrosa et al., Oncotarget, 2015, Pedrosa et al., Prostate, 2016 and Pedrosa et al., Methods Mol Biol. 2018). I then moved to the UK in 2016 for postdoctoral studies in the lab of Prof. Hodivala-Dilke at the BCI to continue investigating how tumour vasculature shapes tumour growth and metastasis, thorough focal adhesion kinase signalling (Pedrosa et al., Cancer Res., 2019 and Newport and Pedrosa, et al., JPath., 2022). My most recent work is focusing on understanding how cancer treatments modulate both tumour and pre-metastatic lung niche vasculature derived angiocrine (paracrine and juxtracrine) signals and their crosstalk with the immune system, thus shaping therapeutic responses and metastasis formation, respectively. I am currently starting my final fellow year and looking to transition soon to an independent position where I intend to focus on exploiting immunomodulatory roles of vascular endothelial cells for devising new combinatorial therapeutic approaches for cancer.

Employment

  • Queen Mary University of London CRUK RadNET post-doctoral fellow
    2021 - 2026
  • Queen Mary University of London Post-doc
    2016 - 2020

Education

  • Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidade de Lisboa Integrated Masters in Veterinary Medicine
    2002 - 2008

Projects & Funding

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Publications (15)