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Acquisition of multi-user equipment for analysis and applications in medicine and life sciences since much of the research and experimental protocols were optimized for use in this equipment. (AU)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Química (IQ) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Pharmacy and Biochemistry from the University of São Paulo (1990), Master in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of São Paulo (1992) and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry - Marquette University, USA (1996). He did post-doctoral studies at UW-Madison, USA School of Pharmacy (1997) and was visiting professor at Université Joseph Fourier in 2006. He is currently full professor and head of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of São Paulo and member of the State Academy of Sciences from Sao Paulo. He serves as co-editor in chief of the journals "Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology" and "J. Photochem. Photobiol" (open) by Elsevier, editor of pharmaceutical sciences of the journal "Recent Patents on Anti-Infective Drug Discovery" (Bentham Science), is a member of the editorial board of Scientific Reports (Nature) and guest editor of Biophysica Reviews-IUPAB meeting. He actively participates in the Brazilian Societies of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBQ), Chemistry, and Biophysics and is currently treasurer of SBBQ. And member of the board of the American Society of Photobiology (ASP). He works on the following topics: quantitative measurements in cells, membranes and interfaces, SPR, interaction of proteins with membranes, photochemistry, photobiology, photodynamic therapy, redox processes, autophagy, regulated mechanisms of cell death. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Acquisition of multi-user equipment for analysis and applications in medicine and life sciences since much of the research and experimental protocols were optimized for use in this equipment. (AU)
The study of redox processes has high potential to elucidate integrative mechanisms, due to the ubiquity and strength of their effects. Many studies involve the role of redox mechanisms in diseases. However, the complexity of this field has increased concerning structures, structure-function relations, methods, molecular and sub-cellular pathology of redox-regulated proteins, genomics, pr…
Using the resources of the Technical Reserve for Institutional Infrastructure according to the rules specified by FAPESP. (AU)
The use of light as a therapeutic modality has recently become an attractive mode of therapy due to the development of efficient and affordable light sources, together with its low invasiveness and low systemic toxicity. Consequently, photo-activated drugs (photosensitizers-PS), are playing key roles in the present clinical portfolio (in a modality called Photodynamic Therapy-PDT). Althou…
Globalization and climate change enhances the transmission of life-threatening diseases through mosquitoes from the genre Aedes and Anopheles. The problem is increasing steadily both in America and Europe. The usage of chemical means for the control of mosquitoes and larvae leads to increased resistance to common insecticides. Furthermore, insecticides are a source of side effects and hea…
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Solar radiation does not only bring harm to the skin. UVB rays are responsible for the formation and subsequent activation of vitamin D, and this compound has a multitude of biological activities, and may even inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells by stimulating the increase in the number of apoptotic cells. Also, the decrease in the blood pressure, which is induced by the release of N…
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This project aims to study the photophysical properties of three types of platinated tetrapyridylporphyrins, coordinated in its porphyrin ring to three different metals: Cu(II), Zn(II) and Ni(II). Along with that, we shall provide experiments to determine the phototoxicity of these three compounds, analysing the membrane damage generated by these molecules after irradiation and comparing …
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The project submitted here entitled "Ruthenium(II) complexes containing quinone based ligands to improve membrane damage and cause PDT response" is part of the postdoctoral project (2019/03195-3) and is related to a collaboration Project between Professor Mauricio da Silva Baptista (Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil) and Professor Claudia Turro (The Ohio State University). The strategy i…
Radical-mediated oxidations are expected to play an important role on photosensitized oxidations occuring in photodynamic therapy and cutaneous photoaging. Given the role of lipid photo-oxidation in these photobiological processes, in this project we aim to study the formation of lipid peroxyl radicals in model membranes, by using of BODIPY-a-tocopherol off/on fluorescent probes. These pr…
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