Award: 5th Place of the European Young Researcher Award 2015

Catarina Leite Pereira has been awarded with the 5th Place of the European Young Researcher Award 2015 which entitled her to a one-year membership of AOSpine, a leading global academic community for innovative education and research in spine care, inspiring lifelong learning and improving patients' lives, which is part of the AO Foundation. The work awarded, has been performed in collaboration with the AO Research Institute Davos, in Switzerland and resulted in a publication in the renown journal Biomaterials in 2014: Catarina Leite Pereira, Raquel M. Gonçalves, Marianna Peroglio, Girish Pattappa, Matteo D'Este, David Eglin, Mário A. Barbosa, Mauro Alini, Sibylle Grad: “The effect of hyaluronan-based delivery of stromal cell-derived factor-1 on the recruitment of MSCs in degenerating intervertebral discs”.

The aim of the AOSpine Europe Young Researcher Award is to encourage and motivate young Europe-based researchers in the field of spinal care and to support researchers in early stages of their career. The award recognizes original spine-related research work which has been accepted for publication or already published in an international journal listed in PubMed, SCI-Expanded or Embase.

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