"While earning his dentistry degree at the University of Brasilia, João Paulo Longo joined Brazil's Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Programme (PIBIC), which gives undergraduates the opportunity to join research projects. The experience ignited a passion for research that led him to quit dentistry and pursue a PhD, during which a cosmetics company director sought his help in product development. These early career experiences, alongside a course on disruptive innovation at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, cemented his ambition to be a science entrepreneur."
"I worked as a dentist for three years after graduating, but my earlier involvement in the PIBIC, which I took part in in as an undergraduate in 2003, inspired me to start a research career and to undertake both a master's and a PhD. My doctoral research was on the application of a photodynamic therapy - a drug activated by light - to treat oral infection in a 12-participant clinical study."
"In 2010, two years into my PhD programme, I was invited by Leila Velez, a founder of Beleza Natural, a cosmetics company in Rio de Janeiro, to develop nanotechnology products, including nanostructured oils developed from biodiverse sources in Brazil. I was recommended by a friend working at the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry in Brasilia. It was an improbable relationship because, at that time, m"
João Paulo Longo began in dentistry but joined the PIBIC undergraduate research programme, which motivated a career shift into research. He completed a master's and PhD focused on photodynamic therapy for oral infection, including a 12-participant clinical study that taught translation of basic science into practical solutions. Translational medicine was not widespread in Brazil then. In 2010 he was invited to develop nanotechnology cosmetics, working with biodiverse Brazilian oils. He bolstered entrepreneurial ambitions with a disruptive innovation course at Harvard Business School and now combines nanotechnology research at the University of Brasilia with founding Glia Innovation.
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