Gonçalo Rodrigues will be defending his Ph D thesis in Biotechnology and Biosciences at Instituto Superior Técnico, thursday the 11th may 2017 (10:30 H, room PA3). During the last years, and under the supervision of Joaquim Cabral and Margarida Diogo from SCERG-iBB and David V. Schaffer from the University of California, Gonçalo focused his efforts on the study of neural differentiation for cell therapy applications. The title of Gonçalo's thesis is “Defined and Scalable Systems for Neural Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”.