Inês Milagre

Assistant Professor

Bio

Participation in Católica Medical School 

  • Tutor in blocks 1.1 and 2.2
  • Tutor in the second-year elective of the Integrated Master in Medicine Introduction to Biomedical Research

Field of Work

Pluripotent cells | Reprogramming | Aging | Epigenetics | Medical Education

Profissional Activity

  • Católica Medical School (CMS)
  • Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR)

Education

  • PhD: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon
  • Bachelor's degree: Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

Professional Career

  • 2022-Present: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, UCP 
  • 2022-Present: Research scientist at Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR)
  • Postdoctoral fellowship 2016-2022: Gulbenkian Institute of Science (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and FCT contract)
  • Postdoctoral fellowship 2011-2016: Babraham Institute - Cambridge, UK (FEBS Fellowship and Epigenesys contract)

Languages

Portuguese | English

Other Interesses

  • Travel
  • Photography
  • Books

 

Other

Removal of nascent transcripts by TTF2 is required for sister chromatid resolution in human cells

Raquel Oliveira & Inês Milagre (with Laura Tovini). 2026.
Other

Common mechanistic pathways in rare congenital syndromes with primary microcephaly

Raquel Oliveira & Inês Milagre (with Jorge, Xavier). 2025. Medicine (United States)
Paper

Compromised Mitotic Fidelity in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Raquel Oliveira & Inês Milagre (with Milagre, Inês). 2023. International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Other

Understanding mitotic physiology of pluripotent stem cells

Inês Milagre (with Pereira, Carolina). 2023. EMBO Young Scientists' Fórum
Paper

Generation and characterization of induced pluripotent stem cell line (IBBISTi004-A) from an Angelman syndrome patient carrying a class II deletion of the maternal chromosome 15q11.2-q13

Inês Milagre 2022. Stem Cell Research
Paper

Multi-omic rejuvenation of human cells by maturation phase transient reprogramming

Inês Milagre (with Diljeet Gill). 2022. eLife
Paper

Voicing the need to consider sex-specific differences in research

Inês Milagre (with Irene Miguel-Aliaga). 2022. Developmental Cell
Paper

Generation and characterization of induced pluripotent stem cells from a family carrying the BRCA1 mutation c.3612delA

Inês Milagre 2021. Stem Cell Research
Paper

Generation and characterization of induced pluripotent stem cells heterozygous for the Portuguese BRCA2 founder mutation.

Inês Milagre 2021. Stem cell research
Other

Multi-omic rejuvenation of human cells by maturation phase transient reprogramming

Inês Milagre (with Diljeet Gill). 2021.
Other

Novel Reprogramming Method

Other

Reprogramming of Human Fibroblasts to Pluripotency Induces CENP-A Chromatin Depletion

Inês Milagre (with Milagre, INÊS). 2021. ISSCR 2021 anual meeting
Other

Generation of patient-derived iPSCs for disease modelling

Inês Milagre (with da Rocha, Simão T.). 2020. EATRIS Annual Meeting
Other

iPSC-derived mammary organoids as a model to study the onset of malignant transformation triggered by BRCA mutations

Inês Milagre (with Pereira da Silva, Teresa). 2020. EMBO Symposium on Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture
Other

Reprogramming of Human Cells to Pluripotency Induces CENP-A Chromatin Depletion

Raquel Oliveira & Inês Milagre (with Inês Milagre). 2020. Open Biology
Paper

Gender Differences in Global but Not Targeted Demethylation in iPSC Reprogramming

Inês Milagre (with Milagre, I.). 2017. Cell Reports
Paper

Impairment of DNA Methylation Maintenance Is the Main Cause of Global Demethylation in Naive Embryonic Stem Cells

Inês Milagre (with von Meyenn, F.). 2016. Molecular Cell
Paper

MERVL/Zscan4 Network Activation Results in Transient Genome-wide DNA Demethylation of mESCs

Inês Milagre (with Eckersley-Maslin, M.A.). 2016. Cell Reports
Paper

Demethylation of the coding region triggers the activation of the human testis-specific PDHA2 gene in somatic tissues

Inês Milagre (with Pinheiro, A.). 2012. PLoS ONE
Paper

Marked change in the balance between CYP27A1 and CYP46A1 mediated elimination of cholesterol during differentiation of human neuronal cells

Inês Milagre (with Milagre, I.). 2012. Neurochemistry International
Paper

Neuronal differentiation alters the ratio of Sp transcription factors recruited to the CYP46A1 promoter

Inês Milagre (with Milagre, I.). 2012. Journal of Neurochemistry
Paper

Okadaic acid inhibits the trichostatin A-mediated increase of human CYP46A1 neuronal expression in a ERK1/2-Sp3-dependent pathway

Inês Milagre (with Nunes, M.J.). 2012. Journal of Lipid Research
Paper

Chromatin-modifying agents increase transcription of CYP46A1, a key player in brain cholesterol elimination

Inês Milagre (with Milagre, I.). 2010. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Paper

Sp proteins play a critical role in histone deacetylase inhibitor-mediated derepression of CYP46A1 gene transcription

Inês Milagre (with Nunes, M.J.). 2010. Journal of Neurochemistry
Paper

Glutathione S-transferase pi regulates UV-induced JNK signaling in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells

Inês Milagre (with Castro-Caldas, M.). 2009. Neuroscience Letters
Paper

Transcriptional regulation of the human CYP46A1 brain-specific expression by Sp transcription factors

Inês Milagre (with Milagre, I.). 2008. Journal of Neurochemistry