{"id":471,"date":"2022-09-25T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T11:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2022-09-25T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T13:04:34","slug":"catarina-henriques","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alumni.imm.medicina.ulisboa.pt\/members\/catarina-henriques\/","title":{"rendered":"Catarina Henriques"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Telomeres and ageing have been a long-term research passion. Motivated by this, I embarked on a Molecular & Cellular Biology degree and graduated with a BSc (hons) at the University of Glasgow, Scotland in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ageing and cancer can be seen as two-sides of the same coin and so I went on to pursue a PhD in immunology and cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was awarded a PhD individual Fellowship by the Portuguese Governmental Science Foundation to study Interleukin-7 receptor trafficking regulation and signaling with Dr. Joao Barata at the University of Lisbon, iMM, Portugal; in collaboration with Prof. Gerry Graham and Prof. Rob Nibbs at the University of Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following my PhD, I wanted to test the telomere hypothesis of ageing, in a vertebrate animal model that, like humans, depended on telomerase for health and lifespan. This motivated my post-doc, funded by a personal fellowship by the Portuguese Governmental Science Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spearheaded the setting up of zebrafish as a model organism in Dr Miguel Godinho Ferreira\u2019s lab at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science, and we were the first in the world to establish the telomerase mutant zebrafish as a new telomerase-dependent vertebrate ageing model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015 I was awarded a CIMA Research Fellowship at the Human Metabolism Department at Sheffield University, which was quickly followed by the award of a Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Fellowship to start up my independent research group. I now hold a Welcome Trust Sir. Henry Dale Fellowship and have a lecturer-equivalent position at University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research at the University of Sheffield is bridging collaborations between immunity, stem cells and ageing in two key centers in Sheffield, HELSI and the Bateson center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summary, I am an in vivo biogerontologist, focused on understanding the fundamental mechanisms limiting tissue homeostasis and immunity in ageing and how these interplay to underlie age-associated degeneration and disease. I use the zebrafish as an in vivo model, and human donors\u2019 tissue and cells ex vivo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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