Ânia Correia-Rodrigues (ACR) is currently a PhD student enrolled in the Health Sciences Programme (Biomedical Sciences) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC), developing doctoral research within the Cellular and Translational Cardiology (CARDICT) group at Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology (CIBB). ACR holds a degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Aveiro (UA) and a Master´s in Biomedical Research from FMUC. Her master's research focused on the impact of lysosomal dysfunction in cardiac fibroblasts on transthyretin-induced cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA). This work was conducted at CARDICT group supervised by Dr Henrique Girão at CIBB, University of Coimbra, earning a final grade of 19. ACR introduced and implemented new technical and methodological approaches that were not previously established in the lab during her research. ACR is co-author of an original research article in the high-impact EMBO Journal (IF: 9.5; Q1; 2024, DOI:10.1038/s44318-024-00177-3). ACR is also the first author of a review on ATTR-CA, published in Trends in Molecular Medicine (Cell; IF: 12.8; Q1), in collaboration with cardiologists (2025, DOI:10.1016/j.molmed.2025.07.002). ACR has presented her master’s work at several scientific meetings, including SINAL – Meeting on Signal Transduction (2024, oral presentation), the V Metabolism, Ageing, and Disease (MAD) Meeting, (2025, oral presentation), VII iBiMED Symposium (2025, poster presentation), 3rd Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles (PNEV) Meeting (2025, oral presentation), SINAL – Meeting on Signal Transduction (2025, poster presentation). ACR completed the postgraduate course "Research Methodologies in Life Sciences, Nature Sciences, and Engineering" (5 ECTS) at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Coimbra (iiiUC) in 2022. Alongside the formal academic training, she also attended several training courses and seminars. In 2025, ACR held a research fellowship within the Health from Portugal project at CIBB, under the supervision of Dr Lino Ferreira. In this project, ACR was actively engaged in applying cutting-edge technologies to tackle key challenges in drug discovery for rare diseases. Besides research, ACR is actively involved in the organization and participation of several scientific outreach initiatives. She also participated in school visits delivering educational sessions to inspire children’s interest in science. Moreover, she trained undergraduate students, contributed to the organization of scientific events and peer-reviewed for Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia.