Luiz Gustavo Nogueira de Almeida

PhD Candidate


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Research

Research interests

I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Dufour and I will be profiling the protein content from synovial fluid and serum samples of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients (JIA). Bioinformatics will be applied to help us in the identification of biomarkers that can better classify disease progression and predict drug responsiveness. A precision medicine approach to RA and JIA patients is our main goal.

Research keywords: Proteomics, proteins, proteases, bioinformatics, systems biology, inflammatory arthritis, biomarkers, precision medicine


Biography

I obtained my B.Sc. in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Alfenas, Brazil, complemented by one year
as an exchange student at the University of California – San Diego, USA. Next, I completed an M.Sc. in Basic
and Applied Immunology from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Dufour and I will be profiling the protein content from synovial fluid and serum samples of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients (JIA).