Leonardo Jose' de Moura Carvalho, PhD

Associate 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

• 2010 – present Associate Professor, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, CA
• 2005 – present Associate Researcher, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
• 2007 – 2010 Assistant Professor, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, La Jolla, CA
• 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

Intravital microscopy of the mouse brain microcirculation using a closed cranial window.

Cabrales P, Carvalho LJ

Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2010 Nov

Artemether and artesunate show the highest efficacies in rescuing mice with late-stage cerebral malaria and rapidly decrease Leukocyte accumulation in the Brain.

Clemmer L, Martins YC, Zanini GM, Frangos JA, Carvalho LJ

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2011 Apr;

Amodiaquine analogues containing NO-donor substructures: Synthesis and their preliminary evaluation as potential tools in the treatment of cerebral malaria.

Bertinaria M, Guglielmo S, Rolando B,Giorgis M, Aragno C, Fruttero R, Gasco A, Parapini S, Taramelli D, Martins Y, Carvalho LJ

European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2011 Feb 22

Nitric Oxide Protection Against Murine Cerebral Malaria Is Associated With Improved Cerebral Microcirculatory Physiology

Cabrales P, Zanini GM, Meays D, Frangos JA, Carvalho LJ

Journal of Infectious Diseases 2011 Mar 16

Murine cerebral malaria: how far from human cerebral malaria?

Leonardo J.M. Carvalho

Trends Parasitol. 2010 Jun

Murine Cerebral Malaria Is Associated with a Vasospasm-Like Microcirculatory Dysfunction, and Survival upon Rescue Treatment Is Markedly Increased by Nimodipine.

Pedro Cabrales, Graziela M Zanini, Diana Meays, John A Frangos & Leonardo J M Carvalho

The American Journal of Pathology. 2010 Mar;

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