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Dr. Renata Silva

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Renata Silva is a Senior Researcher at the UCIBIO Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto. She earned her MSc in Toxicology, in 2006, at the University of Aveiro, and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Specialty of Toxicology, at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP), in 2013. She works in the areas of Medical and Health Sciences, with an emphasis on Basic Medicine, highlighting the Toxicology, Pharmacology and Pharmacy fields. Her work is focused on the elucidation of the toxicological profile of drugs of abuse, as well as in the field of neurodegeneration and drug discovery, aiming at identifying new disease-modifying drugs with potential clinical purposes in neurodegenerative diseases.

Research Keywords & Expertise

Drug Discovery
Neurodegeneration
Pharmacology
Toxicology
Drugs of abuse

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P-glycoprotein
Toxicology
Membrane Transporters
Pharmacology
Neurodegeneration
Drug Discovery
Drugs of abuse

Short Biography

Renata Silva is a Senior Researcher at the UCIBIO Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto. She earned her MSc in Toxicology, in 2006, at the University of Aveiro, and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Specialty of Toxicology, at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP), in 2013. She works in the areas of Medical and Health Sciences, with an emphasis on Basic Medicine, highlighting the Toxicology, Pharmacology and Pharmacy fields. Her work is focused on the elucidation of the toxicological profile of drugs of abuse, as well as in the field of neurodegeneration and drug discovery, aiming at identifying new disease-modifying drugs with potential clinical purposes in neurodegenerative diseases.