Dr. Lionel F. Gamarra

Lionel Fernel Gamarra Contreras received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in 1998, with a thesis titled "Synthesis and Characterization of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Studying the Kinetics of Elimination and Biodistribution in Rats." He completed his Master's degree in Physics at the University of São Paulo in 2001 and his Ph.D. at the same institution in 2006, with a focus on Physics. He is currently pursuing a specialization in Clinical Research at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. He worked as a researcher at the Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein from 2006 to 2008. Since 2008, he has been serving as a Researcher II at the same institute. His research topics mainly include the development of biomaterials and biomarkers for the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders, the study of the therapeutic effects of stem cells labeled with nanomaterials in neurodegenerative diseases, the development of magneto-hyperthermia therapy applied to central nervous system tumors, computational analysis and simulations for neuro-oncological studies, and the study of neurodegenerative diseases using molecular imaging through MRI and fluorescence/bioluminescence tomography techniques in vivo.