Bruno Sarmento graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Porto (UP) in 2002 and completed a PhD in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology at UP in 2007, in collaboration with Queen’s University (CA), University of Copenhagen (DK) and University of Santiago de Compostela (ES).
From 2007 to 2012 he held a Post-Doc position at UP, in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, investigating insulin intestinal absorption mechanisms using in vitro models.
In 2008 he was appointed Assistant Professor at University Institute Health Sciences (IUCS), Campus Gandra, Portugal.
He is currently visiting professor of the Post-Graduate School, UniOeste (BR).
In 2012 he became Associated Researcher at INEB, where he established an independent team. He was appointed as Assistant Researcher at i3S (Institute for Investigation and Innovation in Health)/ INEB in 2016.
He has published more than 150 papers in international peer reviewed journals, 31 book chapters and edited 4 books.
Today his research team is based at both INEB and IUCS.
Research interest
His current research is focused on the development of functionalized nanomedicines and their application in the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields. In particular, nanoformulations of biopharmaceutical drugs with interest in diabetes, cancer and infectious diseases. He has also specialized in mucosal tissue engineering models to validate functionalized nanomedicines and to perform in vitro/in vivo correlation.