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Idágene Aparecida Cestari

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Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (HCFMUSP). Instituto do Coração Professor Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini (INCOR)  (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

Associate Professor in Bioengineering at the Department of Cardiopneumology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, with a PhD from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Escola Paulista de Medicina (Federal University of São Paulo, 1994), a masters degree in Bioengineering (Bioengineering Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA, 1985), and a bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering (Fundação Educacional de Barretos, 1981). She was a fellow at the Department of Artificial Organs, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1983-1984, USA), Visiting Professor at Klinikum Rudolf Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin (2017), Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London (2004, London), and president of the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering (1998-2000). She is Director of the Division of Bioengineering at the Heart Institute (Instituto do Coração) of the Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo (1995-present). She works primarily in Cardiovascular Bioengineering, mechanical circulatory support systems, biomaterials, and 3D printing in medicine. She is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Medicine at USP, as well as a professor and advisor at the Polytechnic School of USP. She was a full member of the CNPq Advisory Committee (2014-2017), the CAPES Evaluation Committee (2010-2013), the Innovation Management Committee of FMUSP, and the Health Technology Assessment Committee at the Hospital das Clínicas of FMUSP. Her research was awarded the Péter Murányi Prize for Scientific and Technological Development in 2015. She was honored by the Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering for her contribution to the consolidation of biomedical engineering in Brazil (2018). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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