Research group
Molecular Synthesis
Position
PhD student
Inês Navalho Morais, is currently a PhD student in Tropical Diseases and Global Health at IHMT-NOVA (since 2023) with an FCT grant (Supervisor: Fátima Nogueira - ORCID: 0000-0003-0313-0778, Co-supervisor: Paula Gomes - ORCID: 0000-0002-6018-4724).
She holds a master's degree in Biomedical Sciences (IHMT-NOVA, 2019) and graduated in Biochemistry from NOVA-FCT in 2017. She is certified and accredited for handling laboratory animals by DGAV. Inês was honored with the Professor João Fraga de Azevedo Award for best IHMT-NOVA master theses in Medical Parasitology (2019).
She was the recipient of a Research Fellow in two research projects: PTDC_BIA-CEL_28456_2017 (2020/01-2022/01), CIRCNA/BRB/0281/2019_AMAZING (2023/02-2023/10) and has co-authored 3 papers, one as 1st author (all Q1).
Her research focus is on malaria drug resistance and new antimalarials.
Representative Publications
Discovery of new piperaquine hybrid analogs linked by triazolopyrimidine and pyrazolopyrimidine scaffolds with antiplasmodial and transmission blocking activities
10.1016/j.ejmech.2024.116163
2,3-Diphosphoglycerate and the Protective Effect of Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency against Malaria Infection-Exploring the Role of the Red Blood Cell Membrane
10.3390/IJMS24021336
Synthetic Red Blood Cell-Specific Glycolytic Intermediate 2,3-Diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) Inhibits Plasmodium falciparum Development In Vitro
10.3389/FCIMB.2022.840968
High efficacy of chloroquine-derived bile salts in Pluronic F127 micelles against blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum
10.1016/j.molliq.2024.125986
