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Luiz Pedro de Carvalho Biography
Luiz was born and grew up in the south of Brazil and obtained degrees in Pharmacy (1994-1999) and M.Sc. (2000-2001) from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre. Luiz then moved to the US to pursued his PhD studies in the laboratory of John S. Blanchard, at the Biochemistry Department of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2001-2006), in New York. He studied mechanistic enzymology, inhibition kinetics and protein chemistry, focusing on essential mycobacterial enzymes.
For postdoctoral training Luiz joined Carl Nathan’s laboratory at the Weill Cornell Medical College (2006-2011), in New York, to explore the use of rational approaches to antibiotic research and learn about Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its interaction with the host. In addition to antibiotic research Luiz also contributed to the first applications of LC-MS-based metabolomics methods for functional genomics and system-level studies of M. tuberculosis. These studies were done under the auspices of Kyu Y. Rhee, also at Weill Cornell Medical College.
de Carvalho group
Recent publications
Research projects
- Functional genomics of mycobacterial enzymes
- Rational antibiotic discovery and systems pharmacology
- Metabolomics-level physiology studies
de Carvalho biography
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