Carlini Celia Regina

Carlini earned her PhD from the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1985. She was appointed professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and was a PI at the Brain Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. After retiring in 2012, she worked as an invited professor at UFRGS and nowadays, at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2009) and a research productivity fellow of the Brazilian CNPq, Carlini was a pioneer in describing the non-enzymatic properties of ureases, such as their insecticidal, antifungal activities and pro-inflammatory, neurotoxic effects in rodents. Now, she studies how the ureases produced by Helicobacter pylori and Proteus mirabilis might contribute to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. She has refereed for more than 60 international journals, and S&T funding agencies. She was member of the editorial board of Toxicon for 20 years, and section editor of the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. In 2020, she became a guest editor and joined the Editorial Board of Current Neuropharmacology.