Scientific Highlights

• Founder and coordinator of the Junior Section of the Portuguese Biochemical Society (SPB); SPB representative at the FEBS Junior Section.
• Secured Erasmus+, EMBO Scientific Exchange, and FEMS Research & Training grants for research stays at the Institut Pasteur (France) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Chemistry and Biology, Universidad da Coruña (Spain).

Selected Publications

1. Casanova D., Baptista V., Costa M. et al. Artemisinin resistance-associated gene mutations in Plasmodium falciparum: a case study of severe malaria from Mozambique. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102684
2. Baptista V., Silva M., Ferreira G.M. et al. Optical spectrophotometry as a promising method for quantification and stage differentiation of Plasmodium falciparum ACS Infectious Diseases (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.2c00484
3. Baptista V., Costa M.S., Calçada C. et al. The future in sensing technologies for malaria surveillance: a review of hemozoin-based diagnosis. ACS Sensors (2021). https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.1c01750
4. Calçada C., Silva M., Baptista V. et al. Expansion of a specific Plasmodium falciparum pfMDR1 haplotype in Southeast Asia with increased substrate transport. mBio 11 (6) (2020). https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02093-20

Patent

• 2022 – WO 2022/070084. Automatic device for non-invasive malaria diagnosis through optical reflectance techniques.