Dr. Tania Cristina Pithon-Curi, PhD

Prof. Tania Cristina Pithon-Curi holds a PhD in Human Physiology from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP). She completed postdoctoral research in the field of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, United States. She served as a Collaborating Professor in the Graduate Program in Human Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at USP (2000–2015), Visiting Professor at USUHS (2017–2018), and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University in Perth, Australia (2016–2017).

She is currently a Full Professor at the Center for Biological and Health Sciences at Cruzeiro do Sul University and serves as the Vice-Rector for Graduate Studies and Research at Cruzeiro do Sul University and Universidade Cidade de São Paulo. She also coordinates the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Health Sciences (CAPES Area: Medicine I) at Cruzeiro do Sul University.

Her research focuses on exercise physiology and leukocyte function, particularly glucose and glutamine metabolism and apoptosis. She has supervised 19 master’s dissertations, 10 doctoral theses, four postdoctoral researchers, and two young FAPESP-funded investigators. She has received multiple research grants from FAPESP, CNPq, and the Brazilian Ministry of Sports.

Prof. Pithon-Curi chaired the CAPES Thesis Award Committee in 2011 and participated in the 2012 committee for CAPES Area 21. She also coordinated the Private Universities Segment on the National Directory of the Brazilian Forum of Pro-Rectors for Research and Graduate Studies (FOPROP) in 2016–2017.

She serves as a reviewer for several high-impact journals, including Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Applied Physiology, British Journal of Sports Medicine, American Journal of Physiology – Lung, Clinica Chimica Acta, and Kidney International. She is the author of the book Exercise Physiology, published by Guanabara Koogan, and has contributed 21 book chapters. She has published 124 articles in international journals and has over 9,950 citations, with an h-index of 46 (Google Scholar, January 2025).