Laís da Silva Pereira Rufino

Goal-oriented dedicated to strengthening administrative operations to streamline costs and enhance procedures. Cultivate long-lasting relationships with students and staff to strengthen program success. Motivational leader with top-notch communication, organizational and strategic planning abilities.

• 01/01/24, current, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Global Health Department at Duke University, Dr. João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci
• 08/01/23, current, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Dr. Isabel Cristina Céspedes

• 2018, Young Researcher Award, Brain, Behavior, and Emotions Congress 2018 - Back to the Beginning to Look to the Future
• 2017, Honorable Mention, XIX Congress of the Postgraduate Program in Structural and Functional Biology in the category of the best doctoral project, UNIFESP
• 2016, Honorable Mention, VII Postgraduate Symposium on Morphofunctional Sciences, Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedical Sciences / USP
• 2014, 2nd place, IX Biomedicine Symposium, UNICID

• 2023, Todaro, DR.; Li, X.; Pereira-Rufino LDS.; Manza, P.; Nasralah, IM.; Das, S.; Childress, AR.; Kranzler, HR.; Volkow, ND.; Langleben, DD.; Shi, Z.; Wiers, CE, Hippocampal volume loss in individuals with a history of non-fatal opioid overdose, ADDICTION BIOLOGY, 28, 13336
• 2023, Li, X. ; Young, AJ.; PPereira-Rufino LDS.; Shi, Z.; Byanyima, J.; Vesslee, S.; Reddy, R.; PondD, T.; Elliott, M.; Reddy, R.; Doot, RK.; Veen, JVD.; Kranzler, HR.; Nanga, RPR.; Dubroff, JG.; Wiers, CE, Pharmacokinetic effects of a single-dose nutritional ketone ester supplement on brain ketone and glucose metabolism in alcohol use disorder - a pilot study, medRxiv [Preprint]
• 2022, Rufino RA, Pereira-Rufino LDS, Vissoto TCS, Kerkis I, Neves ADC, da Silva MCP, The Immunomodulatory Potential Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Diseases of the Central Nervous System, Neurodegen. Disease, 36398461
• 2022, Conte R, Zangirolame CMS, Gobbo DR, Pereira LDS, Panfilio CE, Reginato RD, Maluf LLS, Scerni DA, Céspedes IC, Effects of moderate alcohol consumption on behavior and neural systems of Wistar rats, An Acad Bras Cienc, 94, 3, 35857964
• 2022, Tessitore ME, Pereira-Rufino LDS, Panfilio CE, de Cassia Sinigaglia R, Júnior OA, Maluf LL, Conte R, Ladd FVL, Céspedes IC, Alcoholic neuropathy associated with chronic alcohol intake, Ibro Neuroscience Reports, 22, S2667-2421(22)0, PMC9440385
• 2021, Carvalho, JKF; Pereira-Rufino, LS; Panfilio, CE; Silva, RDA; Céspedes, IC, Effect of chronic alcohol intake on motor functions on the elderly, Neuroscience Letters, 745, 135630, 33440234
• 2021, Gobbo, DR; Pereira, LS; Ferreira, JGP; Horta-Junior, JAC; Bittencourt, JC; Sá, SI, Effects of ovariectomy on the inputs from the medial nucleus of the amygdala to the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus in young adult rats, Neuroscience Letters, 746, 135657, 33482312
• 2020, Pereira, LS; Gobbo, DRr; Ferreira, JGP; Horta-Junior, JAC; Sá, SI; Bittencourt, JC, Effects of ovariectomy on inputs from the medial preoptic area to the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus of young adult rats, Journal of Anatomy, 2020, 1 - 13, PMC7812137

• VII Congresso Acadêmico Unifesp 2021: Universidade em defesa da vida, 2021, São Paulo
• IX INTERNATIONAL MEETING of the Latin American Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (LASBRA), 2019, Córdoba, Argentina

• The use of cell saver in the intraoperative and immediate postoperative period in cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, Mello, MAA.; Pereira-Rufino, LS.; Marini, B.; Flores, FAC.; Panfilio, CE.; Céspedes IC.; Schiaveto, AS, American Journal of Case report, #943675, Accepted
• Neurodevelopmental predictors and their association in the vulnerability to alcohol use disorder development, Pereira- Rufino, L.S.; Gobbo, D.R.; Conte, R.; Shi, Z.; Vissoci, J.R.R.; Wiers C.E., Céspedes I.C., Under review, Neurons
• Macuna Pririens Effects on Neuronal Activation of Central Nervous System, Armenini, BN; Pereira-Rufino, LS; Céspedes, IC, In preparation
• Association Between Polymorphism in Gene Related to the CRF and Noradrenergic Circuits and Life Stressful Events in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder: Research Report, Céspedes, IC, Mazzotti, DR, Pereira-Rufino, LS, Conte, R, Vanessa Kiyomi Ota, Tatiana Wscieklica, José Carlos Fernandes Galduróz, Patrícia Varela, João Bosco Pesquero, Maria Lucia Souza Oliveira-Formigoni, In preparation

• Cognitive Functions Analysis in Elderly Patients Hospitalized for Sars-Cov-2 Infection, Mota, M.M.; Pereira-Rufino, L.S.; Bertolucci, P.H.F.; Medeiros, E.A.S.; Mazzoti, D.R.; Panfilio, C.E.; Céspedes, I.C.
• Neurodevelopmental predictors and their association in the vulnerability to substance use disorder development, Pereira- Rufino, L.S.; Gobbo, D.R.; Conte, R.; Shi, Z.; Vissoci, J.R.R.; Wiers C.E., Céspedes I.C., Under review: 02/2024
• Neuronal Cells Damage Analysis Exposed In Vitro to Cannabinoids, Silva, J.M
• Pereira- Rufino, L.S.
• Panfilio, C.E., Bueno, M.R.S.P., Maurício, Yonamine, M., Oliveira, K.G., Céspedes, I.C., Molecular Brain Research, In preparation

• Silvana Zapata Bedoya, International consultant in data analysis, geographic intelligence, promotion and prevention, epidemiology and public health. Teacher and researcher., https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvana-zapata-bedoya-3042a0187/
• Dr. Corinde Wiers, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine – University of Pennsylvania, corinde.wiers@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
• Dr. João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Chief, Division of Translational Health Science. Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, Duke University, jnv4@duke.edu
• Dr. Isabel C Céspedes, Associate Professor, Department of Morphology and Genetics - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, SP, Brazil, isabel.cespedes@unifesp.br

• Leadership ability to teamwork to search higher productivity.
• High sense of responsibility to organization, sharing its philosophy, principles and values.
• Ability to work in the Research area. Data analysis. Bivariate and Multivariate Statistics.
• Ability to work in the area of Data Analytics in the health sector with a focus on public health (addiction).
• Ability to direct and execute undergraduate and postgraduate research projects.
• Management of database design. Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis and processing. Epigenetic interpretation and Analysis.
• Ability to transmit knowledge in the area of medical and hospital records, databases, quality and health and management indicators; research and methods applied to public health (addiction).