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Tania Maria Ruffoni Ortiga is a Full Professor at the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a Scientist of Our State/FAPERJ, and a CNPq 1D researcher. Tania graduated in Biological Sciences from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and completed her Master's (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in the Graduate Program in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) at UFRJ, at the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute. In 2005, she completed 3 years of postdoctoral research in the Endocrinology Department at the University of Chicago, and from 2006 to 2009, she conducted short postdoctoral periods in the Physiology Department at the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. She served as Deputy Coordinator of the Professional Master's program from 2014 to 2017, participating in the restructuring of the course. In 2018, she was invited to coordinate the Graduate Program in Biological Sciences (Physiology), CAPES level 7, a position she held until 2022. Additionally, she was invited to serve as Extension Coordinator at the institute from 2007 to 2011. Tania is an Ad hoc reviewer for several high-impact international journals and served as Associate Editor of the journal Thyroid (IF 7) from 2013 to 2021. She is currently on the editorial boards of Thyroid, Frontiers in Endocrinology, Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Society of Reproductive Investigation Journal, and JBRA Assisted Reproduction. Professor Tania coordinates and participates in numerous national and international research projects, including coordinating a project for the first Gates Foundation and CNPq grant in Brazil. She was President of the Department of Basic Endocrinology of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism from January 2013 to December 2016. She is a full member of the Brazilian Society of Physiology, the Latin American Thyroid Society, the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), and the American Endocrine Society, as well as a corresponding member of the American Thyroid Association. She supervises postdoctoral, doctoral, academic and professional master's, and scientific initiation internships. In 2014, she founded the Laboratory of Translational Endocrinology, which focuses on research in reproduction, including fertility and pregnancy, and the action and effects of thyroid hormones.

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