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Virginia Picanço e Castro

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Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da USP (HCMRP). Hemocentro de Ribeirão Preto  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

Holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP) (1999), a PhD in Medical Sciences from the Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP) at USP (2006), and a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Sciences from the Department of Clinical Medicine at FMRP (2006-2009). She served as a Senior Researcher at the biotechnology company Vertias, located in the Supera Campus USP incubator (2010-2011). She was a visiting researcher at the Drug Discovery Laboratory at Purdue University, USA (2017-2018), and at the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue University, USA (2019-2020). She holds an MBA in Innovation Management and Technological Capacity from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (2023). Currently, she is a researcher at the Blood Center of Ribeirão Preto, where she conducts projects in the fields of cell therapy, focusing on genetically modified T and NK cells, production of viral and non-viral vectors, and recombinant factor production. She maintains international collaborations with Purdue University (USA), the Technical University Dresden (Germany), and the University of Queensland (Australia). She is an active member of the management of the Brazilian Association for Cell Therapy (ABTCEL), serving as First Secretary for the 2023-2026 term. Additionally, she is a member of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT), where she serves as Regional Treasurer for the term from June 2023 to June 2026. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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