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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