Vanessa Fontana

Vanessa FontanaResearcher
Chemical Biology and Screening Platform
Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory – LNBio CNPEM
Campinas, Brazil
http://lnbio.cnpem.br/

Vanessa Fontana received her Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in 2006, Master degree in Genetics (2009) and PhD in Pharmacology (2012) at University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. During 2-years post-doc experience at University of Campinas (2012-2014), she had a short-term experience at Center for Pharmacogenomics – University of Florida (2013) on genome-wide association studies in hypertension. In 2014 she joined Drug Discovery and Development team at Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio – CNPEM) working on high-throughput screening applied for drug discovery for neglected diseases. Vanessa has experience in high-throughput genotyping, pharmacogenetics studies, clinical research, cell biology and high-content screening for drug discovery. She has 21 peer-reviewed articles on the fields of basic, clinical research and pharmacology.