UNIFESP - EPM - Department of Biophysics
Enzymology Lab
“We study key enzymes linked to human health, plant diseases and biotechnology”
Meet The Team
Associate Professor
PREP, TOP and viral proteases.
Full Professor
ACE-1, Cathepsins and Malaria projects.
Associate Professor
Proteases and new peptides that regulates angiogenesis.
Researcher
Involved in the research projects on angiogenesis and malaria.
Technician
Helps all scientifc projetcs of the Lab.
Researcher
Responsible for the Gold Nano Particles project. Involved in the projects on TOP and Cathepsins.
Post Doc
Studies the cell signaling cascade involved in cell differentiation.
Post Doc
Involved in the research projects on malaria.
PhD stduent
Works in the cloning and characterization of Diaphorina citri cathepsins, for use as molecular targets in combating the insect, vector of Huanglongbing disease.
PhD stduent
Studies the influence of PREP and PREPL on the alpha-synuclein aggregation.
PhD stduent
Works on the development of the in cell high trought put screening methods for intracellular protease inhibitors.
PhD student
Works on the development of allosteric inhibitors for NS2-NS3 protease from Zika Virus
PhD student
Correlation of the malignancy of leukemia cells with the activity and expression of peptidases.
Master student
Studies HPV infected cells aiming to better understand the relationship among the resultant oxidative stress with TOP activity and the MHC class I expression.