Research
Research interests
I started my PhD at CCMRC in October 2013. I previously studied at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) where I did a BSc and a Master degree in biology. This gave me the opportunity to conduct a one-year project in lung cancer for my Master’s thesis. I then undertook an MRes in Biomedical Research at Imperial College London where I had training in the study of molecular pathways, angiogenesis signalling and genetic manipulation. I am currently working on a project focussed on angiogenesis signalling in breast cancer metastasis in order to understand what triggers cancer cell proliferation in a distant organ after a period of dormancy.
Supervisors
Publications
2017
- Lopes Bastos, B. 2017. A possible IDO1- TSP1 role in breast cancer dormancy. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2016
- Lopes-Bastos, B. M., Jiang, W. G. and Cai, J. 2016. Tumour-endothelial cell communications: important and indispensable mediators of tumour angiogenesis. Anticancer Research 36(3), pp. 1119-1126.