Academic Career and Research Areas
Rita Costa is a Postdoc at the Deng lab with significant state-of-the-art expertise in lung biology and respiratory medicine. Rita combines her experience in preclinical cell and tissue methodologies with next generation personalized phage therapy to fight multidrug resistant bacterial infections.
Professional Background
Postdoc at the Institute of Virology, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Maternity leave
Maternity leave
Ph.D. in Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Thesis: Therapeutic Wnt/β-catenin signaling activation and regulation for lung repair in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
M.Sc. in Molecular Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, Porto University, Portugal
B.Sc. Life Sciences, Faculty of Biotechnology, Portuguese Catholic University - Porto, Portugal
Publications
Losol, P. ; Costa, R. ; Ubags, N.D. ; Kapellos, T. ; Demeyer, H.
Build your career around curiosity, rigour and resilience! An interview with the ECM award winner 2025.Wagner, D.E. ; Alsafadi, H.N. ; Mitash, N. ; Justet, A. ; Hu, Q. ; Pineda, R. ; Staab-Weijnitz, C.A. ; Korfei, M. ; Gvazava, N. ; Wannemo, K. ; Onwuka, U. ; Mozurak, M. ; Estrada-Bernal, A. ; Cala-Garcia, J. ; Mutze, K. ; Costa, R. ; Bölükbas, D.A. ; Stegmayr, J. ; Skronska-Wasek, W. ; Klee, S. ; Ota, C. ; Baarsma, H.A. ; Wang, J. ; Sembrat, J. ; Hilgendorff, A. ; Ding, J. ; Günther, A. ; Chambers, R. ; Rosas, I. ; de Langhe, S. ; Kaminski, N. ; Lehmann, M. ; Eickelberg, O. ; Königshoff, M.
Inhibition of epithelial cell YAP-TEAD/LOX signaling attenuates pulmonary fibrosis in preclinical models.Justet, A ; Wagner, D.E. ; Königshoff, M. ; Alsafadi, H.N. ; Mitash, N. ; Justet, A. ; Hu, Q. ; Pineda, R. ; Staab-Weijnitz, C.A. ; Korfei, M. ; Mutze, K. ; Costa, R. ; Bolukbas, D. ; Stegmayr, J. ; Skronska-Wasek, W. ; Ota, C. ; Baarsma, H.A. ; Sembrat, J. ; Hilgendorff, A. ; Günther, A. ; Chambers, R.C. ; de Langhe, S. ; Kaminski, N. ; Lehmann, M. ; Eickelberg, O.
Inhibition of epithelial cell YAP-TEAD/LOX signaling attenuates pulmonary fibrosis "