LINXS Chemistry of Life Core Group member, LINXS Fellow

Taiana Maia de Oliveira, Associate Director, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK.

Dr Maia de Oliveira obtained her bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil, where she studied the structural basis of different biological activities of highly similar Legume Lectins. She has got a PhD from the Norwegian National Structural Biology School (BIOSTRUCT), at the Arctic University of Norway, where her work involved studies of the selectivity determinants of Aurora kinase inhibitors, using approaches in structural biology including x-ray crystallography and theroretical methods, binding, and kinetic analysis. Subsequent postdoctoral work at the University of Tromsø involved structural and biophysical studies of Aurora kinases and, at EMBL, on single particle electron microscopy of kinase complexes. This was followed by an appointment at AstraZeneca, where she has risen to team leader in cryo-EM followed by the position of Associate Director.