Maria Isabel Veiga Ph.D. – Medical Sciences (Karolinska Institutet); Biotechnological Engineering Degree (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança); Bachelor – Biotechnological Engineering (Instituto Politecnico de Braganca)
Principal Investigator, University of Minho, Braga · Portugal
Editorial leadership for Journal of Body Fluids
Research interests
- Malaria
- Drug Resistance
- Drug Development
- Diagnostic Tools
- Plasmodium Falciparum
Biography
Dr. Maria Isabel Veiga is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, where she leads research focused on malaria, drug resistance, drug development, and diagnostic tools for Plasmodium falciparum. She received her PhD from the Karolinska Institutet and completed earlier training at the Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. Her work has made significant contributions to understanding antimalarial drug resistance mechanisms, particularly through investigations of PfMDR1 and PfCRT polymorphisms and their associations with artemisinin-based combination therapy susceptibility. Her most-cited publication, "Hexahydroquinolines are antimalarial candidates with potent blood-stage and transmission-blocking activity" (2017), has been cited over 52 times, and she has authored more than 20 indexed publications advancing pharmacogenomics and molecular diagnostics in malaria research.
Selected publications
- Hexahydroquinolines are antimalarial candidates with potent blood-stage and transmission-blocking activity 2017 cited 52×
- Review of Microdevices for Hemozoin-Based Malaria Detection 2022 cited 36×
- Expansion of a Specific Plasmodium falciparum PfMDR1 Haplotype in Southeast Asia with Increased Substrate Transport 2020 cited 30×
- Multilayer Thin-Film Optical Filters for Reflectance-Based Malaria Diagnostics 2021 cited 19×
- Plasmodium falciparum K13 expression associated with parasite clearance during artemisinin-based combination therapy 2019 cited 17×
- Development of an Ultraviolet-C Irradiation Room in a Public Portuguese Hospital for Safe Re-Utilization of Personal Protective Respirators 2022 cited 12×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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