Leonardo José de Moura Carvalho, PhD
Assistant Professor
La Jolla Bioengineering Institute
La Jolla, CA
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Education
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ph.D. 2000 Immunology
- The National Research Center for Protozoan Molecular Immunology, Obihiro, Japan, 1996 Immunology
- Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil MSc 1995 Immunology/Pathology
- Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, Graduation, 1991 Pharmacy
Experience
2007- present Assistant Professor, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, CA
2005-2007 Associate Researcher, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
2002-2005 Adjunct Researcher, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
2000-2002 Visiting Researcher, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
Selected Publications
Martins YC, Werneck GL, Carvalho LJ, Silva BP, Andrade BG, Souza TM, Souza DO, Daniel-Ribeiro CT.
Algorithms to predict cerebral malaria in murine models using the SHIRPA protocol.
Malaria Journal 2010 Mar 24;9:85.
Leonardo J.M. Carvalho
Murine cerebral malaria: how far from human cerebral malaria?
Trends Parasitol. 2010 Mar 22.
Pedro Cabrales, Graziela M Zanini, Diana Meays, John A Frangos & Leonardo J M Carvalho
Murine Cerebral Malaria Is Associated with a Vasospasm-Like Microcirculatory Dysfunction, and Survival upon Rescue Treatment Is Markedly Increased by Nimodipine.
The American journal of pathology. 2010 Mar; 176(3):1306-15
Leonardo J M Carvalho, Maria F Ferreira-da-Cruz, Claudio T Daniel-Ribeiro, Marcelo Pelajo-Machado & Henrique L Lenzi
Germinal center architecture disturbance during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection in CBA mice.
Malaria journal. 2007; (6)59.
Leonardo J M Carvalho, Francisco A Alves, Cesare Bianco, Salma G Oliveira, Graziela M Zanini, Soe Soe, Pierre Druilhe, Michael Theisen, Jose A P C Muniz & Claudio T Daniel-Ribeiro
Immunization of Saimiri sciureus monkeys with a recombinant hybrid protein derived from the Plasmodium falciparum antigen glutamate-rich protein and merozoite surface protein 3 can induce partial protection with Freund and Montanide ISA720 adjuvants.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology. 2005 Feb; 12(2):242-8