Full name: Katherine Athayde Teixeira de Carvalho
Birth Place:  Brazil
Position/Title: Associate Professor
Working Unit:
1) The Pelé Pequeno Príncipe Institute - Child and Adolescent Health Research and Pequeno Príncipe Faculty.
2) Associated Professor of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology Department in Paraná Federal University.
Education （Degree）:PhD, MD
Research interest: Cell therapy, stem cells, regeneration, myocardial, nervous system, biomaterial,muscle and nerve diseases, skin regeneration, parkinson disease, alzheimer disease, spinal cord injury, cancer vaccines .
Publications:
1. Echocardiographic assessment of myocardial infarction evolution in young and adult rats.
2. Angiogenesis without functional outcome after mononuclear stem cell transplant in a doxorubicin-induced dilated myocardiopathy murine model.
3. Functional outcome of bone marrow stem cells (CD45(+)/CD34(-)) after cell therapy in acute spinal cord injury: in exercise training and in sedentary rats.
4. Functional outcome of bone marrow stem cells (CD45(+)/CD34(-)) after cell therapy in chronic spinal cord injury in Wistar rats.
5. Immunophenotypic expression by flow cytometric analysis of cocultured skeletal muscle and bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells for therapy into myocardium.
6. Evaluation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell standard cryopreservation procedure efficiency.