Dr. Rita Costa

SCIENTIST

ORCID 0000-0003-0710-3611

Dr. Rita Costa is a Postdoc at the Deng lab with significant state-of-the-art expertise in lung biology and respiratory medicine. Rita combines her experience in preclinical cell and tissue methodologies with next generation personalized phage therapy to fight multidrug resistant bacterial infections.

Curriculum Vitae

(08/2022 - 09/2023        Maternity leave)

Since 12/2019               Postdoc at the Institute of Virology, Helmholtz Munich, Germany

(09/2017 - 10/2018        Maternity leave)

08/2014 - 11/2020         Ph.D. in Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Thesis: Therapeutic Wnt/β-catenin signaling activation and regulation for lung repair in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

10/2009 - 12/2011         M.Sc. in Molecular Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, Porto University, Portugal.

10/2006 - 07/2009         B.Sc. Life Sciences, Faculty of Biotechnology, Portuguese Catholic University - Porto, Portugal