Diogo Martins

Dr Diogo Martins is a medical doctor from Portugal with extensive experience in global health and international development. He is the Policy & Advocacy Lead for the Snakebite priority area at the Wellcome Trust. This £80 million programme aims to transform the way snakebite treatments are researched, developed and delivered, to make them safer, more effective and accessible for all. His responsibility is to shape, develop and implement a policy, advocacy and public affairs strategy for the Snakebite portfolio, in collaboration with regulators, manufacturers, donors, governments and multilateral agencies, including the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr Martins is also a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) candidate at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation - Boston University (BU) Commission of Health Determinants, Data, and Decision-making.

João Ricardo N. Vissoci

João Vissoci tem graduação e mestrao pela UEM - Universidade Estadual de Maringá e Doutorado em Psicologia Social pela PUC-SP - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2015). Participou como Research Fellow na Duke University (2012-2013) e concluiu dois estágios de pós-doutorado, na Universidade de São Paulo - USP (2015) e na Duke University - Duke Global Health Institute - DGHI (2016). Atualmente é pesquisador na divisão de Emergency Medicine do departamento de Cirurgia, e Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), na Duke University. Líder do consórcio Methods, Analytics and Technology for Health (MATH), do laboratório de pesquisa Global Emergency Medicine Innovation and Implementation (GEMINI/Duke University), do Grupo de Geoprocessamento e Tecnologias em Saúde (GETS/UEM) e do grupo Psicologia, Esporte e Saúde (PES/Unicesumar). Membro do Research Design and Analysis Core (RDAC) do Duke Global Health Institute e do Grupo de Estudos em Psicologia do Esporte e Desempenho Humano (GEPEDH/UEM). Professor afiliado nos programas de pós graduação em Ciências da Saúde e em Educação Física da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, e do programa de pós-graduação em saúde global do Duke Global Health Institute. Atua principalmente com saúde coletiva, saúde global e desenvolvimento humano, com interesse em metodologia de pesquisa, ciência de dados e implementação. Possui experiência com pesquisas nos Estados Unidos, Brasil e África Subsaariana, com foco na disparidades para acesso a saúde utilizanto tecnologica e inovação com base em dados.

José María Gutiérrez

José María Gutiérrez is Emeritus Professor at Instituto Clodomiro Picado and the School of Microbiology of the University of Costa Rica. He has worked for over 45 years in teaching, research, and extension programs at this university. His main research interests focus on the study of the composition and mechanism of action of snake venoms and toxins, particularly those responsible for the local tissue damage induced by viperid snake venoms. In addition, he has been involved in the development of new antivenoms and venom inhibitors and in the preclinical assessment of the efficacy of antivenoms. He is currently Associate Editor of Toxicon and Deputy. Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. He participates in international advocacy efforts to raise the awareness on the impact of snakebite envenoming and has coordinated regional programs in Latin America, having served as consultant of the World Health Organization in the field of antivenoms.

Laura-Oana Albulescu

Dr. Laura-Oana Albulescu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on novel therapies to treat snakebite and on exploring the utility of small molecule drugs as early prehospital interventions.

He is currently completing a 2-year H.C. Ørsted Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Tropical Pharmacology Lab at DTU. Despite his PhD’s focus on the use of parasitic helminths as novel treatments for autoimmune conditions, especially via gut microbial stimulation, he is now pursuing a different field within biomedicine, i.e. the discovery of toxin targeting antibodies. Specifically, his fellowship's aim is to investigate the potential of alternative antibody scaffolds, i.e. designed ankyrin repeat proteins (DARPins) and nanobodies, as antitoxins. In parallel, he is utilising his bioinformatic training gained throughout his PhD to further improve their antibody discovery pipelines computationally. This includes the high-throughput prediction of toxin structures, identification of target toxin clusters likely to be neutralisable by a single antibody, as well as the prediction of broadly neutralising antibodies via machine learning tools amongst others.

Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro

Possui graduação em Farmácia-Bioquímica pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (2004), mestrado em Análises Clínicas pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (2006) e doutorado em Doenças Tropicais e Infecciosas pela Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (2010). Pesquisador da Fundação de Medicina Tropical Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD), desde 2008. Diretor de Ensino e Pesquisa da FMT-HVD, desde 2017. Professor de Epidemiologia Clínica da Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA), desde 2013. Membro do corpo docente permanente de 3 programas de Pós-Graduação: Medicina Tropical da UEA/FMT-HVD, Ciências Farmacêuticas da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM) e Saúde Pública na Amazônia da UEA/UFAM/CPqLMD/FIOCRUZ. Tem experiência na área de Fisiopatologia, Diagnóstico Laboratorial e Epidemiologia das Doenças Tropicais Negligenciadas, atuando principalmente em acidentes por animais peçonhentos e malária. É investigador principal ou coordenador, atualmente, de diversos projetos de pesquisa financiados pela Fundação Bill & Melinda Gates, NIH, FAPEAM e CNPq, em colaboração com instituições nacionais e internacionais renomadas. Tem cerca de 250 artigos publicados em periódicos nacionais e internacionais. Revisor de diversos periódicos científicos nacionais e internacionais. Editor dos periódicos Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, Frontiers in Immunology, Malaria Journal e Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical. Bolsista de Produtividade do CNPq.