Diogo Rodrigues Fernandes is conducting a Ph.D. in Biology by the University of Lisbon starting in 2024 within the MMD laboratory of cE3c. He is conducting the project "Establishment of a new gene therapy strategy for LAMA2-MD using mice and patient-derived 3D in vitro models", under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ana Rita Carlos of cE3c and Dr. Jose Escandell of IBET.