Rita Monteiro Machado is a pharmacist that completed her masters degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2012 at the University of Beira Interior. Six years later, in 2018, at the same university, she achieved the Doctoral degree also in Pharmaceutical Sciences, being the thesis entitled "Preclinical performance of vaginal semisolid products: technological and safety evaluations assuming physiologic parameters". The doctoral programme was financed by the Potuguese Science Foundation (FCT) in colaboration with an entreprise "Labfit-Health Products Research and Development, Lda". Rita's research career began in 2010, during the development of the masters degree, in which she developed a new pharmaceutical dosage form. Since then, Rita has integrated several scientific projects. Currently, Rita daily basis is divided between the clinical work as a community pharmacist, and lecturing pharmacology. Rita has already published 9 articles in prestigious journals, participated in several conferences and courses, and received 7 awards and/or honors. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific output are: vaginal infection, vaginal sheet, vaginal films, vaginal fluid simulant, texturometric analysis, patient care, vaginal semisolid formulations, development of new products.