Inês Direito
PhD Student
About
Hold a Bachelor degree in Laboratorial Biomedical Sciences by Superior School of Health Technologies of Lisbon and a Master degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics obtained from Science Faculty of Lisbon University, Portugal. The master thesis entitled “Expression of aquaporins in pancreatic tumors: new targets for cancer therapy?” was performed in collaboration with the Farmacy Faculty of Lisbon.
PhD Student in Biomedicine (Doctoral Program of University of Aveiro and Nova University of Lisbon) interested to understand how changes in signaling pathways regulating the proteostasis network, especially the unfolded protein response, contribute to endocrine therapy resistance in Breast and Prostate Cancers.
Publications
Direito, I., Paulino, J., Vigia, E., Brito, M. A., & Soveral, G. (2017). Differential expression of aquaporin‐3 and aquaporin‐5 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Journal of Surgical Oncology.
Direito, I., Madeira, A., Brito, M. A., & Soveral, G. (2016). Aquaporin-5: from structure to function and dysfunction in cancer. Cellular and molecular life sciences, 73(8), 1623-1640.