Pedro Babo

Background

About Pedro Babo

Pedro Babo is co-founder and the scientific director of LANDRATECH, LDA. He graduated in Microbial and Genetics Biology in 2007 and concluded his Master in Molecular and Genetics Biology in 2008 by Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon on the genetic variability and agronomic characteristics of a temperate climate rice germplasm. In 2010, he was awarded with a FCT PhD scholarship with the project “Tissue engineering strategies for periodontal tissue regeneration based on platelet lysate” developed in collaboration with the 3B’s Research Group (supervisor: Rui L. Reis) and the Department of Biomaterials (supervisor: John A. Jansen, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands). His PhD thesis resulted in 7 research papers, and 2 reviews (80% published in Q1 international journals). As a PhD student he was also awarded with a travel award by the Society for Biomaterials (2014). In 2016, he defended his PhD with the highest mention. From 2016 until 2021 he was a post-doc researcher at 3B's research group, establishing a unique research line in endodontic regenerative therapies. Since 2017 until 2021 he was an Invited Professor at Univ. Minho lecturing Biocompatibility laboratories and Biomaterials courses. He was also invited to give lectures in the Doctoral Program in Bioengineering (MIT Portugal Program). He was also strongly involved in supervision activities, as well as in establishing fruitful international collaborations. He has a h-index of 116, 701 citations, 1 registered patent, and published 27 articles (8 as first author) and 3 book chapters. He is currently focused in technology transfer to promote academic-industry collaborations. In 2018 he created the project “Acorn Warehouse” for the enhancement of acorns from European endemic forest, which was finalist in the EIT-Food and MassChallenge accelerator programs in 2020. This project received a total investment of 120 k€ (Startup voucher) from the Institute for the Support of Small and Medium-size Enterprises (IAPMEI) and INNOV-ID (Portugal Ventures), supporting the creation of the StartUP LANDRATECH, LDA. From 2020 he is managing the "la Caixa" PROMOVE project "LandFood", and colaborating in "Acorn4Med" project for the valorization of acorns from our native forest to agri-food and biomedical industries.