Dr. Maldonado attended the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), Biology major. Upon graduation from Biology in 1989, she developed research in chemotherapy of Schistosoma mansoni and Trypanosoma cruzi at the UCV, in several projects supported by the Venezuelan Council of Development Scientific and humanistic (CDCH) and World Health Organization (WHO).<br>In 1992 she entered the PhD program of the Biophysics Institute Carlos Chagas Filho at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During her PhD, she developed part of her experimental work at the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, ILL. After receiving her Ph.D. degree in 1996, Dr Maldonado obtained a Welcome Trust International Fellowship from UK. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Maldonado continued her work at the University of São Paulo (USP), and then in Jan 2004 she joined the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) as a visiting professor at the Gene Therapy Center.<br>In October 2004, Dr. Maldonado joined the Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), as assistant professor (tenure track).<br>In September 2010 Dr. Maldonado was awarded a Tenure position and was promoted to Associate Professor.<br>In September 1, 2021 Dr. Maldonado was promoted to Professor.

• Chair of 2025 TID-GRC - Gordon Research Conference (03/01/2023-03/31/2023)
• Outstanding Performance Award for Securing Extramural Funding, Office of Research and Projects (ORSP), College of Science (COS), UTEP - ORSP (01/01/2021-12/31/2021)
• Outstanding Performance Award for Securing Extramural Funding, Office of Research and Projects (ORSP), College of Science (COS), UTEP - ORSP (09/24/2019)
• Patent - USPTO 9,566,320. Title: Mucin-Associated Surface Protein as a Novel Vaccine Candidate Against Chagas Disease. Patent No.: US 9,566,320. Issue: May 7, 2019. Inventors: Maldonado, Rosa A., Serna, Carylinda, and Almeida, Igor C. Status: US Patent issued. Link: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f6/b8/09/c657e311030501/US9566320.pdf (05/07/2019)
• Outstanding Performance Award for Securing Extramural Funding, Office of Research and Projects (ORSP), College of Science (COS), UTEP - ORSP (08/31/2015)
• 2014 Student Organization Advisor of the Year - American Society of Microbiology - UTEP - Student Organizations Services (05/01/2014-05/31/2014)
• Best undergraduate oral Presentation - American Sociaty for Microbiology Rio Grande Annual Meeting (02/25/2014)
• Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation - Annual Biomedical Reseach Conference for Minority Students /American Sociaty for Microbiology (11/16/2013)
• Oustanding Graduate Student in Pathobiology - UTEP - College of Science (04/21/2013)
• Director of the Bridges to Bacalaureate - NIH (07/01/2011)
• Faculty Marshall of Students - UTEP (05/15/2010)
• Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship - Gordon Conference (06/01/2008-06/30/2008)
• Honorary Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society - Golden Key International Honour Society UTEP chapter (01/01/2007-12/31/2007)
• Post-Doctorate schoolaship - São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP), São Paulo, Brazil. (06/01/1999)
• Wellcome Trust International Fellow - Wellcome Trust International, United kingdom (05/01/1997)
• Ph.D. Fellowship - Venezuelan Council for Scientific and Technological Research Research (CONICIT), Venezuela. (01/25/1992)
• Undergraduate Scholarship, College of Sciences - Central University of Venezuela (03/01/1982-03/31/1982)

• Molecular Parasitology, University of Dundee (1999)
• Ph D in Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho (1996)
• BS in Biology, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias (1989)

• Selective Transfection of a Transferrin Receptor-Expressing Cell Line with DNA-Lipid Nanoparticles. ACS omega 9 38 (2024), I Vinales, J C. Silva-Espinoza, B A. Medina, Urbay JEM, M A. Beltran, D E. Salinas, M A. Ramirez-Ramos, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina, Wilson Poon, M L. Penichet, Igor C. Almeida, Katja Michael.
• Selective Transfection of a Transferrin Receptor-Expressing Cell Line with DNA-Lipid Nanoparticles. ACS Omega 9 38 (2024), Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina.
• A guide for the generation of repositories of clinical samples for research on Chagas’ disease PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 18 (8):e0012166 (2024), Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina.
• Serodiagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of New-World tegumentary leishmaniasis using synthetic type-2 glycoinositolphospholipid-based neoglycoproteins. Emerging microbes & infections 11 1 (2022), S M. Viana, Alberto Montoya, A M. Carvalho, B S. de Mendonça, S Portillo, J J. Olivas, N H. Karimi, I L. Estevao, U Ortega-Rodriguez, E M. Carvalho, W O. Dutra, R A. Maldonaldo, Katja Michael, C I. de Oliveira, Igor C. Almeida.
• New chemotherapy regimens and biomarkers for Chagas disease: the rationale and design of the TESEO study, an open-label, randomised, prospective, phase-2 clinical trial in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. BMJ Open BMJ Open 11 12 (2021), Cristina Alonso-Vega, Julio A. Urbina, Sergi Sanz, María-Jesús Pinazo, Jimy J. Pinto, Virginia R. Gonzalez, Gimena Rojas, Lourdes Ortiz, Wilsoon Garcia, Daniel Lozano, Dolors Soy, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina, Rana Nagarkatti, Alain Debrabant, Alejandro Schijman, Maria C. Thomas, Manuel C. López, Katja Michael, Isabela Ribeiro, Joaquim Gascon, Faustino Torrico, Igor C. Almeida.

• Therapeutic Vaccine for Chagas Disease (2024), Volume Sao Paulo, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina.
• Multi-peptide Mucin Associate Surface Protein (mMASPpep) vaccine potentializes the Immunochemotherapeutic approach for chronic Chagas disease. (2024), Volume Caxambu, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina.
• High Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi Infections in Hospitalized Parturient Women in the US-Mexico Border (2023), Volume Ouro Preto, Brazil, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina.
• Therapeutic vaccine against chronic murine model of Chagas disease (2023), Volume El Paso, Texas, Juan C. Silva, Jael Chavez, Dante Salinas, Jaiden Young-Lopez, Sayona M. Viana, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina.
• Novel pDNA-lipid Nanoparticle for the Selective Transfection of Cells (2023), Volume San Francisco, CA, Irodiel Vinales, Juan C. Silva, Miguel Beltran, Rosa A. Maldonado-Medina, W Poon, M L. Panichet, Almeida, Katja Micheal.

• New Treatments for Chronic Chagas Disease
• Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program