Vanete Thomaz SoccolProfessor Thomaz - Soccol is Research Fellow of CNPq - Level 1A in the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. She graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Federal University of Paraná (1978), Master of Science (Biochemistry) from the Federal Universiy of Paraná (1981) and Ph.D. in Parasitologie Faculte de Medecine - Universite Montpellier I - France (1993) and Post Doctorate in Parasitologie moleculaire the Institut de Recherche pour le Development, France, 1998. Professor Thomaz-Soccol is senior professor and heads the Centre for Molecular Biology from PhD program of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology at Universidade Federal do Paraná. She has experience in the area of Parasitology and Biotechnology. She has supervised more than 100 masters and doctors, created the MSc and PhD in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology at the UFPR, Curitiba and Industrial Biotechnology at the Positive University, Curitiba. Her main focus is the area of the development of biotechnological inputs for human and veterinary immunodiagnostic and vaccine compositions, and related to infectious parasitic diseases. She has 492 publications/communications, which include 10 patents and design copyrights, 04 books, 31 book chapters, and 240 original and review papers, with h index of 28 and > 5422 citation (Google Scholar). Read More Read Less