Claudia Farias Benjamim

Prof. Dr. Claudia Farias Benjamim holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, 1991), a Master's degree in Biological Chemistry from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, 1995), and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of São Paulo/Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine (USP-FMRP, 1999). She completed postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Dr. Steven Kunkel (2001-2004) and at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie under the supervision of Dr. Gillian Butler-Browne (2012-2013). She is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho (IBCCF/UFRJ). She has been awarded research grants including "Cientista do Nosso Estado (CNE)" and PQ-1D.She has experience in the areas of inflammation, immunology, and pharmacology, with an emphasis on cellular immunology. Her group focus on understanding how acute inflammations or infections lead to long-term cell reprogramming, immunosuppression and sequelae. We study chronic inflammatory diseases as the following: sepsis, pulmonary fibrosis, chronic wound healing, myositis, and more recently, the dysfunction of the immune response in COVID-19. In all lines of research, the group aim on studying inflammatory mediators and cellular responses (mainly macrophages, dendritic cells and Tregs) as possible therapeutic targets. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)