{"id":9271,"date":"2023-03-06T17:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?post_type=iplantprotect_member&#038;p=9271"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:01:28","slug":"alexandra-machado","status":"publish","type":"iplantprotect_member","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/iplantprotect_member\/alexandra-machado\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Senior doctoral researcher,<\/strong> <strong><strong>Agroformulations<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Minho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Areas of expertise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biomaterials; <em>Drug delivery<\/em>; Nano-encapsulation; Drug-polymer conjugation; Hydrogels; Antimicrobials; Biophysical characterization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Previous positions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Program at the University of Minho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Research Fellow at the National Institute of Biomedical Engineering (INEB), Porto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Two relevant publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Machado, A,<\/strong> Gama, M. and Martins, J. (2024.) Development of a dextrin-vitamin D3 micelle nanocarrier for the antimicrobial peptide LLKKK18 as a potential therapeutic agent for bone infections. <em>Journal of Materials Chemistry B<\/em><strong>,<\/strong> 12(44), 11464-11476. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D4TB00903G\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D4TB00903G<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Machado, A,<\/strong> Pereira, I., Silva, V., Pires I., Prada J., Poeta P., Costa L., Pereira, J.E., Gama, M. (2022). Injectable hydrogel as a carrier of vancomycin and a cathelicidin-derived peptide for osteomyelitis treatment. <em>Journal of Biomedical Materials Research<\/em> - Part A 110(11), 1786-1800. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jbm.a.37432<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16871,"template":"","class_list":["post-9271","iplantprotect_member","type-iplantprotect_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member\/9271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/iplantprotect_member"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21780,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/iplantprotect_member\/9271\/revisions\/21780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}