Marina Clare Vinaud
Professor and Researcher
Federal University of Goias
Brazil
Biography
Marina Clare Vinaud has completed her PhD at the Federal University of Goias, Brazil. She is a Professor and Researcher at the Tropical Pathology and Public Health Institute of the Federal University of Goias, Member of the Brazilian Society of Parasitology and Associate Editor of the Revista de Patologia Tropical (Tropical Pathology Journal). She has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals.
Research Interest
Marina Clare Vinaud has research interest in Biochemical evaluation of the effect of anti-parasitic drugs (nanophormulations, traditional phromulations and their derivatives) on helminths (Taenia sp, Schistosoma mansoni) and protozoans (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii) and on the host-parasite relationship with emphasis on murine experimental cysticercosis by Taenia crassiceps. Evaluation of the general pathologic processes of the host-parasite interaction with emphasis on the inflammatory process and on the immune profile developed by the host on the experimental cysticercosis model.