Marta Pingarilho

After finishing my Ph.D. in 2013 in the Genetics Department of NOVA Medical School, where my research was focused in Genetic Toxicology, cancer and epidemiology, I joined the Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), New University of Lisbon (UNL) under the scope of HIV drug resistance, particularly on the identification of transmitted and acquired drug resistance mutations. Since then, I gain a lot of expertise and skills in various domains, involving conceptualization and project implementation, including all the ethical related issues, management and laboratory-associated tasks, as well as the organization and analysis of large databases of integrated genomic, clinical, demographic, and socio-behavioral data and HIV-1 drug resistance. Since my Ph.D., I was PI and co-PI of six projects and a team member of other 3 projects, several of them related to the health of migrants and people living in African Low- and Middle-income countries. My expertise is focused on Molecular Epidemiology, Transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases, Drug resistance and Global Public Health.