Margareth Castro Ozelo MD, PhD

Professor Margareth Castro Ozelo is an Associate Professor of the Internal Medicine Department and Director of the Hematology Division at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She received her medical degree (1994), specialist training in hematology and transfusion medicine (1994-1997), and Ph.D. (2004) at UNICAMP before undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship in David Lillicrap’s laboratory at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, focused on gene therapy for hemophilia (2006–2009).

Dr. Ozelo is also the Director of the WFH International Hemophilia Training Centre (IHTC) from Hemocentro UNICAMP. She is involved in several research projects, including gene therapy for hemophilia, risk factors for inhibitor development, immune tolerance induction, and the management of musculoskeletal complications of hemophilia and inherited platelet disorders.