Searching for new drugs to fight staphylococcal infections: a drug repurposing strategy to identify efflux inhibitors and antibiofilm agentes

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Sofia Santos Costa is a Researcher at the Medical Microbiology Unit at IHMT-NOVA and a member of the Global Health and Tropical Medicine Research Center (GHTM), Tuberculosis, HIV and Opportunistic Pathogens and diseases (THOP) group.

She has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, specialization in Microbiology (2013, IHMT-NOVA), Master in Medical Microbiology (2008, NOVA) and a Degree in Applied Chemistry, branch of Biotechnology (2005, FCT-NOVA).

In 2014, he received the 2013 Professor Doutor Manuel Pinto Award, which rewards the best PhD Thesis of that year in the area of ​​Biomedical Sciences, specializing in Microbiology and the 2013 Garcia de Orta Excellence Award for the best student of that year from IHMT/UNL.

Currently, he is Co-PI of the Research Project “BIOSAFE – Preventing antimicrobial resistance in the community – the safe use of biocides”, funded by FEDER/FCT, and member of ENOVAT Cost Action “European Network for Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment”.

To date, she has published 24 articles, as author or co-author, in international journals with scientific refereeing.

Sofia Santos Costa has participated as a teacher in several curricular units of the Master’s programs in Medical Microbiology (NOVA) and Biomedical Sciences (IHMT-NOVA), as well as the Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences (IHMT-NOVA). Currently, she is co-supervisor of a PhD student and a Master’s student, having already supervised two Master’s students and co-supervised six Master’s students and one ERASMUS student.