DrAndreia Bernardo

Teaching summary

Dr Bernardo is a tutor for first year BSc Medical Biosciences students and a co-module lead for the advanced gene therapy stream of the Genes, Drug and Stem Cells MSc at Imperial College London. She also gives ad-hoc lectures to different master courses in London and Portuguese Universities.



Research Supervision

Marie-Victoire Cosson, Postdoc (primary supervisor)

Victor Velecela, Postdoc (co-supervisor)

Danika Hayman, Postdoc (co-supervisor)

Jing Cai, Research Assistant (primary supervisor)

Selina Tsai, Research Assistant (primary supervisor)


Research student supervision, ongoing:

Rebecca Hulbert, PhD (co-supervisor).

Srishti Balamurugan, masters (primary supervisor).


Research student supervision, completed:

Luis Monteiro, PhD (co-supervisor in UK). Completed 2023.

Kayleigh Bozon (co-supervisor). Completed 2019.

Jing Cai, masters (primary supervisor). Characterizing the effect of fatty acid-enriched maturation media in left ventricle cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells. Completed 2023.

Dora Varga masters (primary supervisor). Functional and cellular evaluation of freezing methods for human stem cell derived cardiomyocytes. Completed 2023.

Karishma Deegan masters (primary supervisor). Investigating The Role Of Wnt Signalling In Cardiomyocyte Differentiation From hPSCs. Completed 2023.

Wenjun Li (co-supervisor). Functional characterization of contractility and calcium transients within different cardiomyocyte cultures differentiated from human pluripotent stem cells. Completed 2022.

Nikita Manoharan (co-supervisor). Analysis of congenital heart defects in down syndrome using induced pluripotent stem cells. Completed 2022.

Poorna Raghu Chakravarthy (co-supervisor). Comparisons in sympathetic control of HiPSC – Derived Cardiomyocytes from Two Independent Cell Lines. Completed 2022. Completed 2022.

Patrick Cui (co-supervisor). Analysis of congenital heart defects in down syndrome using induced pluripotent stem cells. Completed 2022.