Personal Information

Name: Joao Paulo de Biaso Viola
Nationality: Brasileira
City of Birth: Lambari
Date of Birth: 09/14/1964
Gender: M
Phone number: (21) 3233-1322
Email: jpviola@inca.gov.br
Business address: Divisao de Biologia Celular Instituto Nacional de Cancer (INCA) Rua Andre Cavalcanti, 37 - Centro Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil 20231-050

Main Research Domain: Regulation of gene expression
I worked in another institution funded by NIH

UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE


Institution: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Course: Medicina
Conclusion year: 1989

GRADUATE PROGRAM


Institution: Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
Course: Mestrado em Biologia Parasitaria
Conclusion year: 1994

Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Course: Doutorado em Biofisica
Conclusion year: 1998


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


From: 00/1994    To: 00/1997
Institution: Harvard Medical School
Activities summary:
Research Associate
Cell signaling and cytokine gene regulation during lymphocyte activation

From: 00/1998    To: /00
Institution: Instituto Nacional de Cancer (INCA)
Activities summary:
Associate Investigator
Cell signaling and gene regulation in oncogenesis


PUBLICATIONS


Title: Xanthoudakis S, Viola JP, Shaw KT, Luo C, Wallace JD, Bozza PT, Luk DC, Curran T, Rao A. An enhanced immune response in mice lacking the transcription factor NFAT1.
Date: //1996
Journal: Science 272:892-5

Title: Viola JP, Kiani A, Bozza PT, Rao A. Regulation of allergic inflammation and eosinophil recruitment in mice lacking the transcription factor NFAT1: role of interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-5
Date: //1998
Journal: Blood 91:2223-30

Title: Caetano MS, Vieira-de-Abreu A, Teixeira LK, Werneck MB, Barcinski MA, Viola JP. NFATC2 transcription factor regulates cell cycle progression during lymphocyte activation
Date: //2002
Journal: FASEB J. 16:1940-2

Title: Accioly MT, Pacheco P, Maya-Monteiro CM, Carrossini N, Robbs BK, Oliveira SS, Kaufmann C, Morgado-Diaz JA, Bozza PT, Viola JP. Lipid bodies are reservoirs of cyclooxygenase-2 in colon cancer cells
Date: //2008
Journal: Cancer Res. 68:1732-40.

Title: Robbs BK, Cruz AL, Werneck MB, Mognol GP, Viola JP. Dual roles for NFAT transcription factor genes as oncogenes and tumor suppressors
Date: //2008
Journal: Mol Cell Biol. 28:7168-81