Diana Pinho is a Research Fellow at INL in the Group of Life Sciences/Nano4Health. Her work is focused on the development of microfluidic systems and sensing platforms for automated cell sorting, in particular circulating tumour cells (CTCs) separation and detection. 3D microfluidic models will be also one of the interests area and working progress.

Diana graduated in Biomedical Engineering by the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (2011) and obtained the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering (2018) from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. The PhD was focused on blood rheology and in the development of microfluidic devices for blood cell separation and deformation analysis and blood cells behaviour under pathological vs healthy conditions. The development of blood analogues and deformable microparticles was also addressed. Pinho D., through a postdoctoral position from ALGORITMI and CeDRI research units, work in the area of 3D printing process optimization, and in the development of in vitro 3D models for cardiovascular pathologies studies.

• Faustino, V., Pinho, D., Catarino, S., Lima, R., Minas, G., 2018.
  A passive microfluidic device based on cross flow filtration for cell separation measurements: a spectrophotometric characterization
  Biosensors Journal, 8(4); doi: 10.3390/bios8040125

• Pinho, D., Campo-Deaño, L., Lima, R., Pinho F.T., 2017.
  In vitro particulate analogue fluids for experimental studies of rheological and hemorheological behavior of glucose-rich RBCs suspensions
  Biomicrofluidics Journal, 11(5):054105, doi: 10.1063/1.4998190

• Muñoz-Sánchez, B. N., Silva, S. F., Pinho, D., Vega, E. J., Lima, R., 2016
  Generation of micro-sized PDMS particles by a flow focusing technique for biomicrofluidics applications
  Biomicrofluidics Journal 10, 1, doi: 10.1063/1.4943007

• Rodrigues, R. O., Pinho, D., Faustino, V., Lima, R., 2015
  A simple microfluidic device for the deformability assessment of blood cells in a continuous flow
  Biomedical Microdevices 17:108, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1007/s10544-015-0014-2

• Pinho, D., Yaginuma, T., Lima, R., 2013
  A microfluidic device for partial cell separation and deformability assessment
  BioChip Journal. 7: 4, pp. 367-374. doi: 10.1007/s13206-013-7408-0