Rate My Professor Maria do Carmo Pinho Franco

Maria do Carmo Pinho Franco is a Professora Associada (Nível 3) in the Department of Physiology at the Escola Paulista de Medicina of Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP-EPM). She holds a bachelor's degree in Biomedicine from Universidade Mogi das Cruzes (1998), a master's degree (2000), and a doctorate (2004) in Pharmacology from the University of São Paulo. She completed postdoctoral training (2004–2008) and a Jovem Pesquisador FAPESP project (2008–2012) in the Discipline of Nephrology at UNIFESP-EPM.

She currently serves as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Translational Medicine at UNIFESP-EPM (Capes rating 6). Since 2014, she has been a member of the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), an international network providing data on non-communicable disease risk factors. Her research focuses on the role of endothelial cells in fetal programming, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, and cancer, with studies involving clinical and experimental approaches to endothelial dysfunction, low birth weight, childhood obesity, and vascular health. She supervises students in the Translational Medicine program and has contributed to numerous publications on these topics, including collaborative work in high-impact journals such as The Lancet.