Ana Teresa Maia is a researcher in the BioOncoSim research group at CINTESIS.
She graduated in Applied Chemistry – Biotechnology from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, and has a MSc in Molecular Genetics from Imperial College, London, UK, and a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the Institute of Cancer Research, also at the University of London.
She was a researcher at Cambridge University for over eight years and has won several awards and grants throughout her career, including the 1st Health Marathon Award and the Born from Knowledge Ideas Award, in the “Health and Well-Being” category, promoted by ANI – National Agency for Innovation.
Currently, she is a professor at the University of Algarve (UAlg), where she is the principal investigator of the Functional Genomics of Cancer group. She is a principal investigator in projects in the area of breast cancer.
