Ernani Pinto Junior

Ernani Pinto is a pharmacist (FCF-USP/1998) and completed his PhD in Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry (IQ-USP), University of São Paulo, in 2002. He worked as a consultant analyst in the evaluation of the bioanalytical part of bioequivalence reports for generic pharmaceutical registration for the General Management of Pharmaceuticals (GGMED) of ANVISA (in 2002, under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Silvia Storpirtis and Marcia Martini Bueno). He was Associate Professor at FCF-USP from 2003 to 2019. He was Deputy Coordinator of the Pharmacy Area at CAPES for the four-year period 2013/17. He was a visiting researcher at Uppsala University (1 year, sandwich doctorate, Sweden, 2000) and at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Visiting Professor, Germany, from 2004 to 2010, for short periods) with agreements via STINT and CAPES-DAAD, respectively. He is currently Full Professor and Dean (term 2022-2026) of the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA-USP), Campus Luiz de Queiroz-USP in Piracicaba / SP. He has published/has more than 150 articles in journals indexed in international and specialized databases. He is a toxicologist and works in the area of environmental toxicology and agricultural inputs, impacts on water quality, metabolomics and proteomics, with an emphasis on analysis of cyanotoxins, peptides, natural products from cyanobacteria and microalgae. He also investigates drug compounding, biological and biopharmaceutical products. He has experience in the quality and potability of water for human consumption and partnerships with water and wastewater treatment plants (WTPs and WWTPs). He is an associate researcher at the Center for Carbon Research in Tropical Agriculture (CCarbon), one of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (CEPID) supported by FAPESP. It works in partnership with the company Spektra Scientific-Regulatory Solutions in the application of toxicology to control cross-contamination in Pharmaceutical Industries using calculation of permitted daily exposure (PDE - Permitted Daily Exposure) and use of in silico tools as an alternative method to the use of animals for the toxicological prediction of agricultural products, their handling products and metabolites. He coordinates projects in the areas of environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, natural products from microorganisms, mass spectrometry, toxicity of agricultural products, and water quality in reservoirs, WTPs and WWTPs. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)