2. final reports.
Date: July 2002 – March 2003 and August 2010 - current
Location Porto Alegre/ Brazil
Company Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Position / Activities Teacher - Pharmacognosy II
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Teaching 4 year Pharmacy students about the Pharmacology of Natural
Products
Date: April 2007 – Dec 2009
Location Florianópolis/ Brazil
Company Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Pharmacology Department
Position / Activities Post-doctoral fellow
Research antidepressant, analgesic and anti-Parkinson activities of plant extracts.
Development of animal models for the study of Parkinson's disease and also
signaling pathways that relate the stress with diseases such as cystitis, irritable
bowel syndrome, and depression.
Participation in the tests of acute and chronic toxicity in partnership with the
Laboratorio Catarinense- Brasil.
Participation in multidisciplinary research projects to put into service the Biological
Laboratory of Pre-clinical inflammation Pharmacology, write the Standard
Operational Procedures.
Mentor graduate students (Master’s and Doctoral degree).
Manage budget and write projects for Governmental funding programs and write
final reports.
Date: November 2005 - March 2006
Location Porto Alegre/ Brazil
Company Sanifer Laboratories
Position / Activities Trainee – Production and Quality sectors
Participation in the production line, quality control and writing of Standard
Operational Procedure
Date: March– October 2002
Location Porto Alegre/ Brazil
Company São Lucas Hospital, PontifÃcia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande
do Sul
Position Coordinator of phase III clinical trials (Pfiezer and Abbott)
Coordinator of clinical research projects and product development.
Trial phase II: drug for urinary incontinence (Pfizer)
Trial phase IV: drug for erectile dysfunction (Abbott).
Responsible for preparation and mailing of samples, scheduling interviews with
patients and writing reports.
Date: March 1999 - December 1999
3. Location Porto Alegre/ Brazil
Company Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Pharmacognosy
Laboratory
Position / Activities Laboratory monitor
Preparation of laboratory material and substances for practical classes to
Pharmacy undergraduates students
Date: September 1998 – November 1998
Location Enschede / Netherlands
Company Universitie Twente
Position / Activities Trainee on textil enzyme treatment
Evaluation of the effect of cellulases (enzymes) on cloths.
Project sponsored by textile and soap Industries in order to improve the quality of
fabrics.
Date: September 1996 – 1997
Location Porto Alegre/ Brazil
Company Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Biotecnology
Laboratory
Position / Activities Undergraduate trainee on mutagenicity and genotoxity of alkaloids
Assessment of mutagenicity and genotoxicity of alkaloids from Brazilian flora,
specially, harman and harmine, on Saccharomyces cereviseae strains.
Date: July 1995
Location Porto Alegre/ Brazil
Company Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Genetics Laboratory
Position / Activities Undergraduate trainee on citogenetic technics
Learning techniques of cytogenetics for studing and caracterizin rodents cariotype
13. Academic production
PATENT DEPOSIT: RATES SMK, von POSER G, VIANA AF, COSTENTIN J, DOREGO JC.
Neuroactive plant extract, pharmaceutical composition comprising the same and process for
its production. No. of patent applications: PCT/EP2010/051816 Feb, 12, 2010.
1) STEIN AC, VIANA AF, MÃœLLER LG, NUNES JM, STOLZ ED, DO REGO JC, COSTENTIN
J, VON POSER GL, RATES SMK . Uliginosin B, a phloroglucinol derivative from Hypericum
polyanthemum: A promising new molecular pattern for the development of antidepressant
drugs. Behavioural Brain Research, v. 1, p. 1, 2011.
2) VIANA AF, MACIEL IS, DORNELLES FN, FIGUEIREDO CP, SIQUEIRA JM, CAMPOS
MM, CALIXTO JB. Kinin B1 receptors mediate depression-like behavior response in
stressed mice treated with systemic E. coli lipopolysaccharide. J Neuroinflammation. v. 7,
p.98, 2010.
4. 3) HAAS J, VIANA AF, HECKLER A, von POSER G, RATES SMK. 2010. The Antinociceptive
Effect of a Benzopyran (HP1) Isolated from in Mice Hot-Plate Test is Blocked by Naloxone.
Planta Medica. v. 76, p.1419 – 1423, 2010.
4) VIANA AF, MACIEL IS, MOTTA EM, LEAL PC, PIANOWSKI L, CAMPOS MM, CALIXTO
JB Antinociceptive Activity of Trichilia catigua Hydroalcoholic Extract: New Evidence on its
Dopaminergic Effects. Evidence Based Complementary Alternative Medicine. Oct 8, 2009.
5) VIANA AF, RATES SMK, NAUDIN B, COSTENTIN J, DOREGO JC. Effects of acute or 3-
day treatments of Hypericum caprifoliatum Cham. & Schltdt. (Guttiferae) extract or of two
established antidepressants on basal and stress-induced increase in serum and brain
corticosterone levels. Journal of Psychopharmacology (Oxford). , v.1, p.681 - 690, 2008.
6) Do Rego JC, VIANA AF, LE MAITRE E, DENIEL A, RATES SM, LEROUX-NICOLLET I,
COSTENTIN J. Comparisons between anxiety tests for selection of anxious and non
anxious mice. Behavioural Brain Research, v. 169, p. 2, n. 282-288, 2006
7) VIANA AF, DOREGO JC, MUNAR L, HECKLER AP, DALLACOSTA TC, von POSER G,
COSTENTIN J, RATES SMK. Hypericum caprifoliatum (Guttiferae) Cham. & Schltdl.: a
species native to South Brazil with antidepressant-like activity. Fundamental & Clinical
Pharmacology, v.20, p.507 - 514, 2006.
8) VIANA AF, DOREGO JC, von POSER G, FERRAZ A, HECKLER AP, COSTENTIN J,
RATES SMK The antidepressant like effect of Hypericum caprifoliatum Cham & Schlecht
(Guttiferae) on forced swimming test results from an inhibition of neuronal monoamine
uptake. Neuropharmacology, v. 49, n. 7, p. 1042-1052, 2005.
9) VIANA AF, HECKLER AP, FENNER R, RATES SMK. Antinociceptive activity of Hypericum
caprifoliatum and Hypericum polyanthemum (Guttiferae). Brazilian Journal of Medical and
Biological Research, v. 36, p. 631-634, 2003.
10) NEVES G, FENNER R, HECKLER AP, VIANA AF, TASSO L, MENEGATTI R, FRAGA CA,
BARREIRO EJ, DALLA-COSTA T, RATES SMK. Dopaminergic profile of new heterocyclic
N-phenylpiperazine derivatives. Brazilian Journal of Medical Biological Research, 36: 625-
629, 2003.
11) VIANA AF, ANDREAZZA RS, DALLAGNOL R, von POSER GL, RATES SMK.
Hypericum perforatum: elements for the rational use. Revista da AFARGS, v. 9, 2002.
12) BOEIRA JM, VIANA AF, PICADA JN, HENRIQUES JA. Genotoxic and recombinogenic
activities of the two beta-carboline alkaloids harman and harmine in Saccharomyces
cerevisiae. Mutatant Research, v. 20, p. 39-48, 2002
13) GNERRE C, POSER GL , FERRAZ A, VIANA AF, TESTA B, RATES SMK. Monoamine
oxidase inhibitory activity of some Hypericum species native to South Brazil. Journal of
Pharmacy and Pharmacology, v. 53, p. 1273-1279, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
João Batista Calixto calixto@farmaco.ufsc.br
Stela Maris Kuze Rates ratessmk@farmacia.ufrgs.br
Jean Claude do Rego jean-claude.dorego@univ-rouen.fr
Jean Costentin jean.costentin@univ-rouen.fr