Clinical & Experimental Cardiology
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Veras PST

Biography

Patrícia S T Veras graduated from the School of Medicine of the Federal University of Bahia and completed her PhD in the Department of Immuneparasitology of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. She currently works as a Researcher at the Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, a division of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (CPqGM/FIOCRUZ). She has experience in the fields of cellular and molecular biology, specifically in the area of cellular biology of host-pathogen interactions. She focused her research efforts on interactions between murine macrophages and Leishmania spp. Her group has developed studies concerning murine macrophages using large-scale approaches, aiming to identify molecules within macrophages that play crucial role on the course of Leishmania infection. Her group found promising molecules that proved to be useful as chemotherapeutic targets in therapeutic applications to fight against leishmaniasis.

Research Interest

cellular and molecular biology, cardiology and diabetes

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