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PhD-Level Biomedical Engineer | Helping Medtech & Pharma Build Next-Gen Organ-on-Chip Platforms
Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing
Technical Writing
Research
Technology Scouting,
Scientific and Technical Research,
Systematic Literature Review
Consulting
Go-to-Market Strategy Consulting,
Operations Consulting,
Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI
Predictive Modeling,
Algorithm Design-ML,
Data Visualization,
Data Mining,
Data Cleaning,
Data Processing
Product Development
Product Validation,
Concept Development,
Prototyping,
Device Fabrication
Work Experience
Post-doctoral fellow
Universidade do Minho
March 2020 - April 2025 
Researcher
Universidade do Minho
October 2019 - March 2020
Research Fellow
Politecnico di Milano
October 2018 - September 2019
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher
Politecnico di Milano
September 2015 - September 2018
Master Student
LEPABE/CEFT
January 2013 - October 2014
Research Trainee
INEB
October 2009 - October 2010
Education
M.Sc (Master of Science)
IPCA
September 2024 - Present
PhD
Politecnico di Milano
September 2015 - December 2019
Certifications
- Certification details not provided.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniela Cruz-Moreira, Cátia Correia, Fábio S. Gonçalves, Vanessa F. Cardoso, Maria C. Paiva, Rui L. Reis, Iva Pashkuleva, Daniela Peixoto, Natália M. Alves (2025). Multifunctional Hyaluronic Acid/Graphite Nanoplatelet Hydrogels as Tools for Spinal Cord Regeneration . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Melanie Krüger, Alicia Ruppelt, Benjamin Kappler, Elke Van Soest, Roos Anne Samsom, Guy C. M. Grinwis, Niels Geijsen, J. Bernd Helms, Marco Stijnen, Linda M. Kock, et al. (2022). Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Platform Using Porcine Slaughterhouse Livers for Disease Modeling . Bioengineering.
Daniela Cruz-Moreira(2022). Shining a Light on Cancer – Photonics in Microfluidic Tumor Modelling and Biosensing . Advanced Healthcare Materials. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 2201442. Wiley
Daniela Cruz-Moreira(2022). Functional microvascularization of human myocardium in vitro . Cell Reports Methods. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 100280. Elsevier {BV}
Daniela Cruz‐Moreira, Roberta Visone, Francisco Vasques‐Nóvoa, António S. Barros, Adelino Leite‐Moreira, Alberto Redaelli, Matteo Moretti, Marco Rasponi(2021). Assessing the influence of perfusion on cardiac microtissue maturation: A heart‐on‐chip platform embedding peristaltic pump capabilities . Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 118. (8). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 3128--3137. Wiley
Daniela Cruz-Moreira, Roberta Visone, Giovanni S Ugolini, Simona Marzorati, Stefano Piazza, Enrico Pesenti, Alberto Redaelli, Matteo Moretti, Paola Occhetta, Marco Rasponi(2021). Micro-electrode channel guide (µECG) technology: an online method for continuous electrical recording in a human beating heart-on-chip . Biofabrication. 13. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 035026. {IOP} Publishing
Daniela Cruz-Moreira and Roberta Visone and Francisco Vasques-N{\'{o}}voa and Ant{\'{o}}nio S. Barros and Adelino Leite-Moreira and Alberto Redaelli and Matteo Moretti and Marco Rasponi(2021). Assessing the influence of perfusion on cardiac microtissue maturation: a heart‐on‐chip platform embedding peristaltic pump capabilities . Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Wiley
(2021). Micro-electrode channel guide (µECG) technology: an online method for continuous electrical recording in a human beating heart-on-chip . Biofabrication.
Erika Ferrari, Cecilia Palma, Simone Vesentini, Paola Occhetta, Marco Rasponi (2020). Integrating Biosensors in Organs-on-Chip Devices: A Perspective on Current Strategies to Monitor Microphysiological Systems . Biosensors.
Yana Roka-Moiia, Silvia Bozzi, Chiara Ferrari, Gabriele Mantica, Annalisa Dimasi, Marco Rasponi, Andrea Santoleri, Mariangela Scavone, Filippo Consolo, Marco Cattaneo, et al. (2020). The MICELI (MICrofluidic, ELectrical, Impedance): Prototyping a Point-of-Care Impedance Platelet Aggregometer . International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Ugolini, G.S., Visone, R., Cruz-Moreira, D., Redaelli, A., Rasponi, M.(2017). Tailoring cardiac environment in microphysiological systems: An outlook on current and perspective heart-on-chip platforms . Future Science OA. 3. (2).
Ferreira, A.M., Cruz-Moreira, D., Cerqueira, L., Miranda, J.M., Azevedo, N.F.(2017). Yeasts identification in microfluidic devices using peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization (PNA-FISH) . Biomedical Microdevices. 19. (1).
Daniela Cruz-Moreira, Giovanni Ugolini, Roberta Visone, Alberto Redaelli, Marco Rasponi(2016). Microfabricated Physiological Models for In Vitro Drug Screening Applications . Micromachines. 7. (12). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 233. {MDPI} {AG}
Ugolini, G.S., Cruz-Moreira, D., Visone, R., Redaelli, A., Rasponi, M.(2016). Microfabricated physiological models for in vitro drug screening applications . Micromachines. 7. (12).
CONFERENCE POSTER
Functionalization of Surgical Meshes with bioengineered spider silk proteins to impair surgical site infections @misc {
author = {Albina Cristina Ribeiro Franco and Casanova, Marta R. and Cruz-Moreira, Daniela and Martins, Albino and Neves, Nuno M. and Leonor, Isabel B. and Reis, Rui L. and Corresponding author: Albina Cristina Ribeiro Franco.},
title = {Functionalization of Surgical Meshes with bioengineered spider silk proteins to impair surgical site infections},
year = {2022},
month = {jun}
}. TERMIS - EU Meeting 2022.
Laser-based subtractive manufacturing for tissue engineering @misc {
author = {Cruz-Moreira, Daniela and Cláudia F. Gomes and Queirós, Sandro and Andrew A. Guy and Athina E. Markaki and Rogério P. Pirraco},
title = {Laser-based subtractive manufacturing for tissue engineering},
year = {2021},
month = {oct}
}. FoReCaST Final Conference.
Real-time measurements of 3D cardiac microtissue electrical activity integrated in a beating heart-on-chip @misc {
author = {Roberta Visone and Ugolini, Giovanni Stefano and Cruz-Moreira, Daniela and Occhetta, Paola and Rasponi, Marco},
title = {Real-time measurements of 3D cardiac microtissue electrical activity integrated in a beating heart-on-chip},
year = {2019},
month = {may}
}. TERMIS - EU Meeting.
Heart-on-chip platform to assess the influence of culture media perfusion on in vitro cardiac tissue maturation @misc {
author = {Cruz-Moreira, Daniela and Redaelli, Alberto and Rasponi, Marco},
title = {Heart-on-chip platform to assess the influence of culture media perfusion on in vitro cardiac tissue maturation},
year = {2018},
month = {sep}
}. TERMIS World Congress.
Novel microfluidic platform to assess the influence of perfusion on cardiac microtissue @misc {
author = {Cruz-Moreira, Daniela and Redaelli, Alberto and Marco Rasponi},
title = {Novel microfluidic platform to assess the influence of perfusion on cardiac microtissue},
year = {2018}
}. 6th National Congress of Bioengineering - GNB 2018.
A novel cantilever-based approach for force measurement of 3D engineered cardiac microtissue within a microfluidic platform @misc {
author = {Cruz-Moreira, Daniela and Emiliano Votta and Alberto Redaelli and Marco Rasponi},
title = {A novel cantilever-based approach for force measurement of 3D engineered cardiac microtissue within a microfluidic platform},
year = {2017},
month = {jun}
}. TERMIS - EU Meeting 2017.
BOOK CHAPTER
Generation of functional cardiac microtissues in a beating heart-on-a-chip @inbook {
author = {Ugolini, Giovanni Stefano and Visone, Roberta and Cruz-Moreira, Daniela and Mainardi, Andrea and Rasponi, Marco},
title = {Generation of functional cardiac microtissues in a beating heart-on-a-chip},
pages = {69--84},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = {2018},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2018.05.005},
doi = {10.1016/bs.mcb.2018.05.005}
} . Microfluidics in Cell Biology Part A: Microfluidics for Multicellular Systems.
Ugolini, G.S., Visone, R., Cruz-Moreira, D., Mainardi, A., Rasponi, M.(2018). Generation of functional cardiac microtissues in a beating heart-on-a-chip . Methods in Cell Biology. 146. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 69-84.
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