Lucas Fabrício Bahia Nogueira, PhD
Lucas Fabrício Bahia Nogueira is graduated in Chemistry (2016) and Master in Science (Chemistry, 2019) from FFCLRP / USP. Due to a cotutelle agreement, he is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Chemistry, which is offered by FFCLRP / USP, and also, in biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy). His Ph.D. project is focused on the development of bioinspired scaffolds based on the chemical composition and organization of soft and hard tissues, aiming application in regenerative medicine and also to help the assessment of the biochemical processes driving the biogenesis of mineralizing vesicles.
Maryanne Trafani de Melo, Pos Doc
Maryanne Trafani de Melo is graduated in Chemistry from the FFCLRP/USP (2012). She has experience in Protein Biochemistry (2012-scientific initiation). Master in Science (2015) from the Department of Chemistry at the FFCLRP/USP, at the Center for Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering. PhD in Sciences (2019) from the Department of Chemistry at the FFCLRP/USP at the Center for Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering. Post Doctorate (2022) at the Department of Chemistry at the FFCLRP/USP, Laboratory of Surfaces and Colloids. She is currently a postdoctoral student at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (CNPq scholarship).Working mainly on the following topics: production and characterization of scaffolds, isolation of extracellular vesicles, production of biomaterials by 3D printing and bone regeneration.
Débora Cristina Kawasaki Codognato, PhD
Graduated in Civil Engineering and worked as a civil engineer. Graduated in Medical Physics (USP) in 2016 where she was a scientific initiation and later a master’s student in the Photobiophysics Laboratory of the Physics Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Languages of Ribeirão Preto supervised by prof. Dr. Iouri Borissevith in the Physics Applied to Biology and Medicine program in the research line of photochemotherapy focused on the interaction between photosensitizers (PS) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) to form a complex enhancing the preferential accumulation in tumor tissues.
Larwsk Hayann, PhD
Larwsk Hayann got his bachelor’s in biomedicine in 2012 where he also started his scientific career studying myelodysplastic syndrome, a pre-leukemia condition. In 2016 he started his Master´s at the University of Porto, Portugal, in biochemistry where he developed his thesis on mathematical modeling involved in pre-biotic chemistry and primitive molecular signaling. His thesis was carried out at the Center of Astrobiology, Spain, Madrid, in association with NASA. Moving back to Brazil, Larwsk started his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2022 and currently, he works with strontium-based nanoparticles applied to biomaterials aiming for bone healing, and his major research interest is to understand how ions (especially strontium) affect at the molecular level mineralizing cell lines (for example, osteoblasts and odontoblasts). Finally, Larwsk was currently enrolled in Napierala Dobrawa´s laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where he explored molecular signaling pathways activation and matrix vesicle secretion when stimulated with strontium, calcium, and phosphate.