Ana Karolyne Gonçalves dos Santos

PhD candidate

Brief bio

Graduated in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB, 2021). Undergraduate researcher at the Laboratory of Neural Control of Circulation and Arterial Hypertension –  CBiotec/UFPB, in Cardiovascular Physiology. Master’s degree in Sciences from the Graduate Program in Human Physiology at ICB/USP (2024, CNPq scholarship). Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Sciences (Graduate Program in Functional and Molecular Biology at ICB/USP), under the supervision of Professor Luciana Venturini Rossoni. She has experience in the field of Cardiovascular Physiology, with an emphasis on Vascular Physiology, aiming to understand the vasoactive function and structural changes of perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) in arterial hypertension.

Research Project

Endogenous Ouabain: A potential target for the Perivascular Adipose Tissue dysfunction in DOCA-Salt Hypertensive rats. CAPES Scholarship.