Susana R. Cerqueira is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson University. Dr. Cerqueira holds a PhD in Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells from Minho University, Portugal, and completed her postgraduate training at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, at the University of Miami. Her ongoing research focuses on the study of pathological mechanisms that follow neurotraumatic events, and the development of cell-specific therapies to modulate neuroinflammation using transcriptionally informed and biomaterial-based approaches. Dr. Cerqueira’s work has been recognized with the Lone Star Paralysis Collaboration Award 2016, and the Woman in Neurotrauma Research VISA Award 2017, among others. She is an interdisciplinary researcher that combines expertise from biomedical engineering, neuroscience, and nanomedicine in the pursuit of developing effective neuroprotective clinical treatments.