Professor at the Medical School of the University of São Paulo (USP) and Director of the Institute of Tropical Medicine from USP. Coordinates the FAPESP project “A Translational Study for the Identification, Characterization and Validation of Severity Biomarkers in Arboviral Infections”. She is a researcher of the “Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III” and the “São Paulo – Minas Gerais Neglected Tropical Disease Research Center for Biomarker Discovery”.