Susana Cunha graduated from the University of Minho in 2019 with a degree in Biology and Geology, and concluded her Master’s degree, in 2022, in Applied Biochemistry - Biomedicine, at the same University. In 2020, she developed her master dissertation related with the "Detection and quantification of cell-free Nucleic Acids (cfNAs) in blood samples of patients with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML): Protocol optimization" at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho. In 2023, she collaborated as a volunteer researcher on the project, iMetabolBU – “Immunometabolic requirements in Buruli Ulcer” during which she implemented the in vitro model of infection of THP1-differentiated macrophages with Mycobacterium ulcerans, providing the experimental basis for the project. More recently, she was awarded a research fellowship within the “la Caixa Foundation” funded project FITTED – “A flexible platform for generating synthetic virus to control infectious diseases” that aims developing a flexible platform for generating synthetic bacteriophages with desirable and specific antibacterial properties towards personalized treatment of infectious diseases. Currently, she is supervising the experimental work on phage therapy of two medical students in the context of the MinhoMD curriculum. During her collaborations within these different research projects, she has gained knowledge in a range of several areas of research, including molecular diagnosis for cancer, immunometabolism, infection, and phage therapy; as well as expertise in several essential laboratory techniques, such as cell culture, microbiology, flow cytometry, quantitative RT-PCR, and Western Blot.