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Keyla Sá, PhD

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Keyla Sá, PhD

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Cellular and Molecular Immunologist, with focus on basic immunology, Host-pathogens interactions, innate immune sensing and strong background in molecular biology.

Over the past 10 years, I have been focusing my research on answering fundamental question on the host-pathogens interaction, focusing mostly on the innate immune response to different pathogens, including parasites and virus.

During my master's degree at the Universidade do Pará I had the opportunity to work with molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases as well as on Immunogenetics, including the investigation of the presence of SNPs in cytokines genes and their association with susceptibility/resistance to infections and currently.

On my Ph.D. at the University of São Paulo with Dario Zamboni, I was investigating the role o intracellular Nod-like Receptors and pyroptosis (an inflammatory cell death) on the response against Leishmania and SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Currently, on my postdoc at Yale University with Akiko Iwasaki I am working with long COVID.

For a complete list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/cit...

Education & Training

  • PhD
    Universidade de São Paulo, Cellular and molecular biology (2022)
  • MSc
    Universidade Federal do Pará, Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents (2018)
  • BSc
    Universidade Federal do Pará, Biomedicine (2016)

Honors & Recognition

AwardAwarding OrganizationDate
Best Abstract Award - Honorable MentionInternational Experimental Biology & Medicine Conference2022
Honorable Mention in the Newton Freire-Maia award in the area of Human and Medical Genetics, and PharmacogeneticsBrazilian Society of Genetics2022
Young Talent Award in Life SciencesBrazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq) and Cytiva2022
AAI-IUIS Travel Award; AAI Introductory Course of ImmunologyThe American Association of Immunologists2017
Highlight of the Scientific and Technological Initiation UFPA 2015Universidade Federal do Pará2015
Honorable mention - Work Presented during the VII Winter Course of Immunology of the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, Graduate Program in Basic and Applied Immunology, FMRP / USP.Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - USP2014

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