Rômulo José Soares Bezerra
Oswaldo Cruz Institute – FIOCRUZ, Brazil
Biography
Rômulo José Soares Bezerra is graduated in Pharmacy from the University Estacio de Sá – Rio de Janeiro - Brazil (2004), Master in cell and molecular biology by FIOCRUZ (2008) and PhD in cell and molecular biology by FIOCRUZ (2012). He is the invited member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), participating as a reviewer of the journal “Journal of Biomolecular”. He has experience in the biochemistry and pharmacology area in the following topics: Leishmania amazonensis, nitric oxide, arginase, anti-Leishmania experimental chemotherapy, and biochemistry of trypanosomatids. Actually, his research is focusing in the context of High Throughput Screening of natural products to find an active molecule, which could be useful in the future to treat some diseases related to the purinergic receptors.