TANIA MARIA RUFFONI ORTIGA

Tania Ortiga is a Full Professor at the Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho, and P.I. of the Laboratory of Translational Endocrinology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, Brazil. She holds a PhD (2000) in Physiology at UFRJ and in 2005, completed 3 years of postdoctoral training at the Department of Endocrinology of The University of Chicago. From 2006 to 2009 she was a Visiting Researcher at the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Throughout this period, she investigated the mechanism of action of thyroid hormones with an emphasis on the development of transgenic animals using the model of resistance to thyroid hormones syndrome, having published more than 50 papers in this area. For the last 10 years she also dedicated her attention to reproductive and pregnancy research, having become, in 2013, one of the first grantees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Brazil- investigating the basis of Drug transport and human prematurity. She participates intensely in the training of new researchers, having supervised more than 30 postgraduate students. Abstracts presented by the graduate students under her guidance received more than 15 Young Researcher awards in Brazilian and International meetings. Tania is a member of several editorial boards of many high-impact journals such as: Thyroid, Frontiers in Endocrinology, Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Reproductive Sciences and the JBRA Assisted Reproduction. Tania was associate editor of Thyroid journal for 10 years. Tania participates in several scientific societies such as SRI, Endo Society, American Thyroid Society, Latin America Thyroid Society, Brazilian Society of Physiology. She received Young Researcher Award from the Latin American Thyroid Society (LATS). Dr Ortiga also obtained the title of “Scientist of Our State” given by Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation to support research in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). Furthermore, Tânia is researcher level 1 at National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the main federal research funding body in Brazil.