Vanessa Araujo Varela

PhD and Master in Health Sciences, Pharmacist. Professor at the Metropolitan University of Santos (UNIMES) since February 2025, in Undergraduate Courses in Medicine, Biomedicine, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Nursing. Co-founder of Prime Science Education, a company that provides academic, scientific, and professional consultancy and private lessons for students in the health field (2024-2025). She was a Guest Professor in the Discipline of Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering of the Undergraduate Course in Biomedical Engineering at the Albert Einstein Israelite Faculty of Health Sciences (2024). The doctoral research project addressed the immunobiology of cancer and the contribution of MDSC (myeloid-derived suppressor cells) in leukemia (AML) and immunotherapy with NK cells. Doctor of Health Science completed in December 2022 with the development of the thesis "In vitro generation of a myeloid suppressor cell population from the differentiation of immature leukemic lineage THP1" (CAPES scholarship founding), at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Welbert de Oliveira Pereira. During her doctorate, he also worked with the development of 3D bioprinting models of bone marrow to study the microenvironment of acute myeloid leukemia. Master's degree from the Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP (October 2017) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mirian A. Boim in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the Discipline of Nephrology, in the Department of Medicine (CNPq scholarship) with the development of the thesis "Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the expression of water and electrolyte transporters in the kidney of hypertensive rats with renal artery stenosis". In the same laboratory, she received a Scientific Initiation scholarship from CNPq (July 2013 to July 2014) and FAPESP (August 2014 to July 2015). She graduated in from Centro Universitário Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas - FMU (July 2015). Areas of activity: Physiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Oncology, Immunology, Biotechnology, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Cell and Genetic Therapy. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)