Robson Faria
Robson Faria received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in 2001, and an MSc and DSc from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation’s Cellular and Molecular Biology program, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He has been a public health researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, in Brazil, since 2007. During the past 20 years, Dr. Robson has been working with purinergic receptors, especially P2X7R, and the action of synthetic molecules and derivatives of natural products to discover new prototypes capable of treating neglected diseases.