Angelica Boldt PhD

Angelica Boldt is a research productivity fellow and associate professor of Genetics at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) since 2013. She received a degree in Biological Sciences (1994) and a master's degree in Genetics (2000) from UFPR, PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Tuebingen, Germany (2006). Worked as a post-doc researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Immunopathology/ HC-UFPR from 2007 to early 2013. She has major experience in Immunogenetics (genes of the complement system) and epidemiological genetics of complex diseases (infectious, autoimmune, neurological, cancer). Through genomic and epidemiological analysis, She intend to identify genetic and epigenetic/behavioral variants modulating predisposition to these diseases, in order to prevent them in affected families and communities.