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
Since 12/2019
Postdoc at the Institute of Virology, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
08/2022 - 09/2023
Maternity leave
09/2017 - 10/2018
Maternity leave
08/2014 - 11/2020
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
10/2009 - 12/2011
M.Sc. in Molecular Oncology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, Porto University, Portugal
10/2006 - 07/2009