Mariana C. Rocha, Phd Email & Phone Number

Portugal

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

Madrid Area, Spain

• Lead and organised national and international (Brazil, Spain and Portugal) advisory boards in different therapeutic areas: KOL engagement, creation of the agenda and discussion guide, elaboration of meeting materials.
• Performed multiple research projects to: 1. analyse competitors’ landscape for pharmaceuticals, OTCs, medical devices and food supplements, 2. compile information on recommendations and clinical guidelines provided by.
• Assisted in the identification and segmentation of local and regional KOLs.
• Elaboration of: scientific material within regulatory frameworks, promotional materials, scientific talks and presentations, training materials for healthcare providers, manuscripts for conference proceedings.
• Collection of scientific and clinical evidence on existing and newly designed products.
• Performed extensive scientific literature search (publications, clinical trials and patents) for scouting projects.

Madrid Area, Spain

• Worked closely with pharmaceutical, telco, consumer durables & consumer goods companies, in order to design strategies to access new stakeholders and increase their product market share.
• Participated in planning (discussion guides, questionnaires, recruitment) and conducting in-depth interviews, focus groups, heuristic analysis and user tests as well as building personas, mind maps, customer journeys.
• Assisted in running creative ideation sessions involving clients to develop new business concepts.
• Performed long-term trends analysis and benchmarking to map competitors’ landscape (value proposition, target, communication strategies and both communication & distribution channels).

London, United Kingdom

1. Designed research plan & experiments to investigate how mitochondrial metabolism in skeletal muscle is modulated by calcium, and development of new metrics for future metabolic studies.2. Scientific support in developing new protocols and software for more user-friendly data acquisition.3. Analysis, synthesis and publication of scientific data coupled.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• 1. Worked independently but also collaboratively on several group projects, managing/leading a team of five students, to:
• Implement the assay developed during the PhD into routine diagnostic technique
• Explore disease mechanisms in patients with mitochondrial disease.
• Evaluate whether exercise training provides a long-term effective/safe therapy for these patients. 2. Liaised with team- software engineer and NHS Mitochondrial Diagnostic Laboratory to implement the new diagnostic.
• Training research assistants to routinely assess diagnostic muscle biopsies
• Developing both software and website for the automatic analysis of clinical muscle biopsies. 3. Acquisition of the CyTOF imaging technology (in liaison with Flow Cytometry Core Facility):

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

The PhD project made substancial contributions to the field of diagnostics as it envolved developing a new tool to objective and reliably quantify mitochondrial dysfunction in human skeletal muscle (under the supervision of Professor Sir Doug Turnbull and Dr Karolina Rygiel)Main duties at this post:1. Develop a high-throughput and computer-based technique.

Lisbon

Eleven months placement at the Neuroscience Unit of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM, Lisbon) - funded by a FCT (Fundaçao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia) research fellowship with the aim of finishing investigating the physiology of the neuromuscular transmission of SOD1G93A mice (transgenic model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) in pre- and.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Master project performed at the Neuroscience Unit of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM, Lisbon) with the aim of investigating the physiology of the neuromuscular transmission of SOD1G93A mice (transgenic model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) in pre- and post-symptomatic phases of the disease. Under the supervision of Dr Paula Pousinha and.

Navarra, Spain

Three months placement at the laboratory of Gene Therapy of Cancer (CIMA) - under the supervision of Dr Pedro B. López. Research scope: cloning, expression and purification of a recombinant protein.Main duties in this post:1. Purification of PCR products, 2. Cloning in prokaryotic expression plasmid, 3. Transformation and protein expression in E. coli, 4..

Uruguay

One-month volunteering at Karumbe - an Uruguayan non-profit NGO that unites a group of researchers, conservationists, fishermen and students, working towards protecting endangered marine biodiversity, mainly sea turtles and their habitats.Main duties:1. Capturing (by means of nets) juveniles of green turtle, to mark them and collect data (length, weight..).

Postgraduate Studies, Clinical Research And Medical Affairs

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mitochondrial Diseases

Master Of Science (Msc), Neuroscience

Two years programme comprising of: one-year modular postgraduate course followed by an one-year supervised laboratory-based research.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General