Juliana Aparecida Preto de Godoy

Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho - Campus Rio Claro (2006). Master (2010) and PhD (2014) degrees in Cellular and Structural Biology from the State University of Campinas. During the Sandwich Doctorate, she studied different populations of hematopoietic progenitor cells in human umbilical cord blood in the laboratory of Dr. Mervin Yoder at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) with PDSE/Capes grant for 6 months (May-October 2012) . Post-doctorate at the Department of Structural and Functional Biology at Unicamp under the supervision of Dr. Hernandes Carvalho (2016). Also in 2016,she began his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. Michael E. Boulton at IUPUI. The following year, she moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, integrating the same laboratory where he remained until May/2018. During his postdoctoral research, he developed projects in the area of cell therapy, genetic reprogramming of stem cells using lentiviruses, translational research using human stem cells in animal models of macular degeneration. Furthermore, he established the Crispr-Cas9 technique and started culturing and differentiating iPSCs cells. Currently, he is part of the Cell Therapy team at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, acting as a Specialist in Cell Therapy. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)