Maria João Castro Gouveia. Completed an integrated Master's degree in Chemistry on 11/2011/18 at the University of Porto Faculty of Sciences, PhD in Veterinary Sciences on 12/2019/12 at the University of Porto Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar and Degree in Chemistry on 07/30/2009 from the University of Porto Faculty of Sciences. She is a Researcher at the University of Porto Institute of Agricultural and Agro-Food Sciences and Technologies. She published 25 articles in specialized journals. Shee co-supervised 2 work(s) completing a degree course in Biochemistry. She works in the area(s) of Medical and Health Sciences with an emphasis on Health Sciences with an emphasis on Parasitology, namely in the study of processes associated with cancer associated with parasitic infections and the development of new therapies for them. In your Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific production are: S. haematobium; Opisthorchis; Metabolites; schistosomiasis urogenital; bladder cancer ; cytoscopic; Schistosomiasis; Opisthorchiasis; helminth infections-associated cancer; parasitic metabolites; Antioxidants; combination therapy; drug repurposed; Helminth infections; carcinogenesis; DNA adducts; CYP enzymes; antioxidants; drug combination; drug repurposing; Helminth infection,; Malignancy, ; Schistosomiasis,; Opisthorchiasis; Cytochrome P450; Oxysterol; Schistosoma mansoni; antioxidant biomolecules; anthelmintic drug; anticancer drug; newly transformed schistosomula; Anthelmintic; Biomolecules; N-acetylcysteine; Resveratrol; Schistosomula; praziquantel; schistosomiasis; drug delivery; amino acid transport; in vitro and in vivo assays; prodrug design; stability studies; Schistosoma haematobium; bladder; estrogen-DNA adduct; estrogen-like metabolites; squamous cell carcinoma; urogenital schistosomiasis; cytochromes P450; enantiomers; metabolism; praziquantel;; Angola; Bladder; Catechol estrogen quinone; DNA adduct; Squamous cell carcinoma.