Biography
Dr. Raquel Tayar Nogueira obtained her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) in 2011 in partnership with Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) working on the development of new recombinant virus vaccines and immune correlates of protection. During 2013 to 2015, she worked as a Post-doctoral fellow at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC)/The Rockefeller University in the fields of Biotechnology and Immunology having implemented single B-cell cloning methodology for human antibody expression using a humanized mouse model. Dr. Raquel has published papers in prominent journals like Virology Journal, PlosOne, Journal of Immunological Methods and Immunology Letters. Dr. Raquel also has experience on pharma R&D projects as she worked at GSK Vaccines during the years of 2015 to 2016 with coordination and support of a R&D Dengue Vaccine Clinical Trial. Later, she joined Instituto Nacional do Câncer to provide support to the Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell R&D preclinical project.
Research Interest
B and T-cell Immunology, Antibody, Immunotherapy, Immune-oncology, Vaccines, Flavivirus, Virus Vectors, infectious Diseases, Drug development