Rafael Victorio Carvalho Guido

Rafael GuidoProfessor
Physics Institute of Sao Paulo – University of Sao Paulo
Sao Carlos, Brazil
http://www.ifsc.usp.br/english/

Dr. Guido is Assistant professor 2 at the Physics Institute of São Carlos (IFSC) of the University of São Paulo (USP). He received his PhD in biomolecular physics from the University of São Paulo and the University of Marburg in 2008, and completed two years of postdoctoral work in medicinal chemistry and structural biology at the University of São Paulo. He’s specialist in structure-based drug design and in the integration of computational and experimental methods. His research is focused on the structural elucidation of relevant molecular targets and the application of this knowledge toward the discovery and development of new drugs and agrochemicals for human and plant diseases. He’s the vice-chair of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ) and a CNPq research fellow – 2 level. He’s also an associate investigator of the National Institute of Structural Biotechnology and Medicinal Chemistry in Infectious Diseases and the Center for Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery.