LabMol Team
The Laboratory for Molecular Modeling and Drug Design (LabMol) was established in March 2009, at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Federal University of Goiás. The laboratory is equipped with a powerful computer facility and molecular modeling and design softwares. At present, there are 16 members in LabMol, including 1 Professor, 1 Visiting Professor, 3 Research Associate, 9 Ph.D. students and 2 undergraduate students. The lab is generally interested on designing new drugs for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases and cancer, and also to develop new tools for predicting pharmacokinetics properties and toxicity, using the broad areas of computer-assisted drug design, cheminformatics, and structural bioinformatics.
Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Pharmacy of Federal University of Goias, and head of LabMol – Laboratory for Molecular Modeling and Drug Design. She graduated in Pharmacy and got her Ph.D. degree in drugs and medicines at University of Sao Paulo (USP), with part of her PhD developed at the University of New Mexico, USA. Her research focuses on Drug Design for Neglected Diseases and Cancer, using integrated Virtual Screening (VS) approaches, QSAR models and cheminformatics and chemogenomics approaches to identify new hit compounds for these diseases. Her group is also focused on the generation of predictive tools to study metabolism and toxicity of chemical compounds. In 2014 she was awarded with the “For Women in Science” award from L’Oréal Brasil- UNESCO-ABC, and in 2015 she received the “International Rising Talents” award from L’Oréal – UNESCO. Since 2012, she is CNPq research fellow – 2 level, and is the treasurer of the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ) (2014-2016). In 2016 she was elected Affiliated Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Collaborators Team
'It is the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed'. C. Darwin
Dr. Eugene Muratov
Visiting Professor
Research Assistant Professor and Vice-Director of Laboratory for Molecular Modeling, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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(Muratov full Bio)
Dr. Rodolpho C. Braga
External Researcher
A cheminformatician and computational chemist working as Senior Research Scientist at Altox (São Paulo, Brazil).
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(Braga full Bio)
Dr. Melina Mottin
Research Associate
Dr. Melina Mottin joined LabMol in 2016 as a Research Associate. She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2009).
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(Mottin full Bio)
Dr. Bruno J. Neves
External Researcher
Dr. Bruno Junior Neves is Assistant Professor and Director of Laboratory of Cheminformatics (2017-Actual), Centro Universitário UniEVANGÉLICA, Anápolis, Brazil.
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(Neves full Bio)
Dr. Vinicius M. Alves
External Researcher
Dr. Vinicius Alves is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the UNC Catalyst for Rare Diseases, USA.
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(Alves full Bio)
Students Team
Leaders don’t creat followers, they create more leaders.
Marília N. Nascimento
Ph.D. student
Doctoral candidate in the Tropical Medicine and Public Health at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil. (Nascimento full Bio).
Flávia Silva
Ph.D. student
Doctoral candidate in Pharmaceutical Innovation at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil.
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(Flavia full Bio)
Joyce V. V. B. Borba
Ph.D. student
Doctoral candidate in the Tropical Medicine and Public Health at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil. (Borba full Bio).
Arthur C. Silva
Ph.D. student
Doctoral candidate in the Tropical Medicine and Public Health at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil. (Silva full Bio).
José T. Moreira-Filho
Ph.D. student
Doctoral candidate in the Tropical Medicine and Public Health at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil. (Moreira-Filho full Bio).
Maycon D. Lima
MSc. student
Master's student in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil.
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(Lima full Bio)
Steven Hall
MSc. student
Master's student in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil.
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(Hall full Bio)
Bruna K. P. Sousa
MSc. student
Master's student in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil.
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(Sousa full Bio)
Amanda S. Carvalho
Undergraduate student
Undergraduate student in Pharmacy at the Federal University of Goiás, GO, Brazil.
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(Carvalho full Bio)
Former members
Dr. Cleber C. Melo-Filho
Co-founder at InSiChem
Co-founder, a start-up company that uses machine learning methods to guide the design of new drugs. (Melo-Filho full Bio).
Dr. Juliana Rodrigues
Professor at Goiás State University
Professor at Goiás State University, GO, Brazil. (Rodrigues full Bio).
Dr. Marcelo N. Gomes
CEO at InSiChem
He is the co-founder and CEO of InSiChem, a start-up company that uses machine learning methods to guide the design of new drugs.
(Gomes full Bio).
(Gomes full Bio).
Want to Join Our Team?
We are looking for a highly creative and motivated students to join our team. This individual will work on a wide variety of projects, both biological screening and computational based.
The ideal candidate is innovative, creative, positive, passionate, team player and able to work on multiple projects while adhering to deadlines.