Carolina Andrade
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I studied Biology in my hometown Lisbon and became very passionate about parasitology. I started working on malaria research in 2014. I did my master thesis followed by a 9-month position as Research Assistant in Miguel Prudencio’s laboratory at IMM working with the liver-stage of P. berghei in the context of a malaria vaccine development.
In 2016 I started my PhD studies in the laboratory of Silvia Portugal at the Center for Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Heidelberg University Hospital (Heidelberg, Germany). My PhD focused on the host and parasite interactions that allow for the survival of P. falciparum during the dry season, in the absence of the mosquito vector. I graduated in May 2021.
At the end of July 2021, I started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Matthijs Jore at Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboudumc (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) where I’m working on human monoclonal antibodies that target the pre-erythrocytic stage of P. falciparum.
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