DrAndreia Bernardo
Research Fellow
National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
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- Research FellowNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- ICTEM building, Hammersmith Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Andreia Bernardo is a Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Her research group is based at the National Heart & Lung Institute. The group's work is supported by the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation, LifeArc and Deep-Tech Prime Imperial College Accelerator. Andreia is also a visiting scientist at the The Francis Crick Institute.
Andreia’s overarching research aims are to understand how the left ventricle heart chamber develops, matures and ages, to develop faithful models for disease modelling, drug discovery, and cell therapy and ultimately to improve patient care.
Andreia’s pioneering differentiation protocol to generate left ventricle specific cardiomyocytes with mature properties from human pluripotent stem cells is key to enable this research.
Andreia’s overarching research aims are to understand how the left ventricle heart chamber develops, matures and ages, to develop faithful models for disease modelling, drug discovery, and cell therapy and ultimately to improve patient care.
Andreia’s pioneering differentiation protocol to generate left ventricle specific cardiomyocytes with mature properties from human pluripotent stem cells is key to enable this research.
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom2004 - 2008
- MasterUniversity of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal2003 - 2004
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Post-Doctoral Fellowthe University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom2008 - 2012Postdoctoral Fellowship
- BHF Intermediate Research Fellowthe University of Cambridge, Francis Crick Institute, Cambridge, London, United Kingdom2012 - 2018To elucidate how the human heart develops from the mesoderm tissue layer, and what makes this process susceptible to perturbation.
- Wellcome Trust Career Re-Entry FellowFrancis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom2019 - 2022To determine what makes chamber specific cardiomyocytes unique and to make use of this knowledge to generate chamber specific cardiomyocytes in vitro for cell therapy, drug screening and disease modelling.Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Research FellowImperial College London, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, United Kingdom2023 - presentTo study left ventricular development, maturation and disease and explore if human pluripotent stem cell derived left ventricle cardiomyocytes have therapeutic value for the treatment of heart failure.
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- PortugueseCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Research Fellow