Isadora Clivatti Furigo

Dr Isadora Clivatti Furigo is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, UK. Her research is focused on studying the brain areas involved in the control of metabolism in normal and imbalanced conditions, such as obesity, diabetes, and pregnancy. Dr Isadora did her Bachelors in Fundamental Sciences for Health (2006-2009), Master in Anatomy (2012) and PhD in Human Physiology (2016) at the University of Sao Paulo-Brazil. During her post-doc in Donatos lab in Brazil (2016-2019) she has described for the first time, with collaborators, an unprecedented function of GH in the central control of metabolism, acting in AgRP hypothalamic neurons, leading to a first authorship at the magazine Nature Communications. At Ozannes lab in the University of Cambridge (2019-2020), she studied the effects of maternal obesity to the development of the offsprings brain and published an article in the renowned journal Plos Biology. She has been awarded with the Michael-Harbuz Award (2021) that recognizes outstanding early career neuroendocrinologists, has been selected to the Leadership Development Awards Programme 2024 by SFE, and among some research grants, has been awarded with the Early Career Grant from SFE. Area of interest: maternal behaviour, central control of metabolism, neuroanatomy, GH, prolactin, hypothalamus, VMH, ARH, superior colicullus. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)