Rita Tostes

Dr Rita Tostes is a Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto Medical School. Dr Tostes received her PhD from the University of Sao Paulo and completed her academic training at The University of Montreal, Canada and at The Medical College of Georgia, USA under the mentorship of Professors Ernesto Schiffrin, Rhian Touyz and R.Clinton Webb. The focus of Dr Tostes’s research are the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate vascular function under physiological and, particularly, under pathological conditions (arterial hypertension, diabetes and obesity). Her lab investigates how sex hormones, aldosterone and the immune system influence arterial function. Her students and post-doctoral fellows have received several awards including travel awards to attend ET Conferences, and other international meetings by the American Heart Association, the American Physiological Society (APS), American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), Inter-American Society of Hypertension (IASH), International Society of Hypertension (ISH). Dr Tostes is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, principal investigator at the Center of Research in Inflammatory Diseases (CRID), serves as a scientific panel member at the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), and has been a member of the Editorial Board of AJP-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology since 2020.