PhD by the Interunits Biotechnology Postgraduate Program at University of São Paulo with sandwich PhD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA. Graduated in 2017 in the Pharmacy-Biochemistry course at University of São Paulo, with a sandwich degree at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany, by Science without Borders program, with CAPES support. During the graduation performed two undergraduate research projects. Postdoctoral fellow at the Immunology Laboratory of the Heart Institute of the Hospital da Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is responsible for diseases such as Pneumonia, Septicemia and Meningitis, which cause the deaths of about 350,000 children under 5 every year, worldwide. Colonization precedes invasive diseases, which usually occur in situations of low immunity or previous inflammation, such as viral infections. Our group evaluated the effects of inflammation on res…
Infections caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae mainly affect children and the elderly, causing around 197 million cases of pneumonia per year, mostly in developing countries. The pneumococcal capsule is an important virulence factor, protecting the bacterium against phagocytosis by host cells. The polysaccharides (PS) that compose the capsule show structural and antigenic variability, clas…
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