Dr. Leila Lopes Bezerra is the CEO of the startup Bio Insumos e Diagnósticos LTDA (BIDiagnostics), a company incubated at USP (CIETEC/USP) and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences (biomedical area) (UERJ, 1978), Master's in Chemistry (area Biochemistry) (UFRJ, 1983) and Doctorate in Biochemistry (UFRJ, 1991). Post-doctorate at the University of California (2001-2002), at the Division of Infectious Diseases. Held two sabbatical internships with an ES scholarship (senior internship) from CNPq. In 2006, at the Proteomics Unit of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and, in 2014, at the Aberdeen Fungal Group at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She was an Associate Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro for 39 years, retired in 2019. In that same year (2019) she began his entrepreneurial career and founded BIDiagnostics. Recently, as an entrepreneur, she got Entrepreneurial Researcher grant from FAPESP (2019-2020) and is currently a CNPq Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at USP, working in the transposition of knowledge from academia to society, as a collaborator in applied research projects.Other relevant academic titles: Coordinator of the Working Group on Sporothrix and Sporotrichosis of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (2011-present); Visiting Researcher (FAPESP scholarship holder) at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of São Paulo (2017-2018); CNPq 1C Productivity Scholarship until retirement; Coordinator of the INCT Emerging Fungal Infections certified in 2017.Area of #8203;#8203;expertise: Glycomics, Proteomics, Applied Microbiology and Immunodiagnostics. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Fungal infections, better known as mycoses, are infectious diseases caused by eukaryotic microorganisms, pathogenic fungi. The Fungi kingdom has a biodiversity of about 1.5 million species, many of them have biotechnological interests and are used in industry while some other species have impact on the Health area or related to it. Infections caused by fungi have a huge economic impact on…
Since 1998, the human and feline sporotrichosis epidemic caused by the new pathogen, S. brasiliensis, discovered in 2007, has spread in Brazil without any perspective of epidemiological control. Already considered a hyperepidemia in some states, the disease reaches the entire South-Southeast region, expanding to the Northeast. Current epidemiological bulletins and reports record from hund…
The fungi Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and Sporothrix schenckii are of a great interest in medical and biological areas. The first is the agent of paracoccidioidomycosis, an endemic disease in many regions of Latin America, mainly in Brazil. The second is the etiological agent of sporotrichosis, subcutaneous mycosis, a re-emergent disease in our environment, and nowadays constitutes a zo…
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