Researcher 1A at CNPq, Full Professor and Free Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo, Advisor of the Postgraduate Program of the Molecular Biology. Throughout her career, she has supervised 41 master's degrees and 36 doctorates, and continues to actively advise at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She supervised several postdoctoral fellows and numerous Undergraduate Scientific Students. It has solid national and international cooperation, and coordinates thematic projects that involve research groups. She was a representative of the Americas at the International Proteolysis Society (IPS), and received several National and International scientific awards from the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Society.
Dr. Maria Luiza Vilela Oliva and her collaborator are specialists in the purification of proteins obtained from seeds of Brazilian plants with inhibitory function of different classes of proteolytic enzymes that are up to regulate in different biological processes such as inflammation, hemostasis and tumors. She is investigating the action of these proteins in vitro and in vivo models. Thus, the group led by Dr Oliva will assess the ability of the natural protein as well synthetic peptides based on the structure of the inhibitors to modulate different proteolytic activities that are highly upregulated in cancer cells in an attempt to identify the target of the inhibitors.