CV Lattes
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Departamento de Medicina (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Degree in Medicine at the Federal University of Ceará (1986), medical residency in Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Master (1993) and PhD (1996) in Medicine (Nephrology) by Federal University of São Paulo and post doctoral fellowship by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (1998-2001). He is currently a physician and researcher at the Federal University of São Paulo-Escola Paulista de Medicina. Works in the field of Internal Medicine with emphasis in Nephrology and operates mainly in scientific research on the following topics: progression of kidney disease, glomerulopathies, podócito biology, cell biology and general molecular and cellular and molecular biology of renal cancer. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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As a component of the glomerular filtration barrier, the podocyte is a target of injury in many glomerular diseases and podocyte cell shape changes, including foot process effacement and detachment from glomerular basement membrane (GBM), occur in virtually all proteinuric diseases. It lies outside the glomerular capillary connected via progressive cytoplasmic branches to the foot process…
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