She graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Universidade de São Paulo (1979-1983). She completed a residency in Pathological Anatomy (1984-1985) as a Fundap fellow at HOVET – FMVZ-USP, assigned to the Animal Pathology Service of the Department of Pathology at the Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo. She obtained a master’s degree (1986-1989) and a doctorate (1989-1994) in Experimental and Comparative Pathology from the Universidade de São Paulo, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. José Luiz Guerra. She conducted postdoctoral research at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC – WHO) in Lyon, France (1997-2000) with a FAPESP fellowship. She achieved habilitation at FMVZ-USP in 2000. Since 2004, she has been a Full Professor at the Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo. She has experience in Veterinary Medicine with an emphasis on Animal Pathology, focusing on the following topics: animal pathology, toxicological and experimental pathology, experimental and comparative oncology, genetically modified animals and organisms, and genome editing. She was the founder and President of the Associação Brasileira de Oncologia Veterinária, ABROVET, President of the Associação Latinoamericana de Patologia Toxicológica e Experimental, ALAPTE, coordinator of the Núcleo de Apoio a Pesquisa em Oncologia Veterinária (NAP-ONCOVET), President (2012-2016) and Vice-President (2016-2019) of the Graduate Committee of the Interunit Graduate Program in Biotechnology. She has been a member of the Expert Panel of the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, RIFM, since January 2009. She was a member (2006-2012 and 2014-2019) and Acting President (2014-2019) of the National Technical Biosafety Commission, CTNBio. She currently serves as an alternate representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation to CTNBio since April 2022. Member of the “International Ad-hoc Expert Group at the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute – HESI.” Member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Toxicology, IUTox, since September 2022. Since March 2018, she has been a member of the Agronomy and Veterinary (II) Coordination Area at FAPESP. Since October 2019, she has been President of the Undergraduate Committee of the Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo. Member of the Academia Paulista de Medicina Veterinária, APAMVET, since July 2023. (Translated from Currículo Lattes)
