Margarida Brás is a true enthusiast for immunology, regenerative medicine, stem cell biology and cell therapies and she is currently a research assistant at Filipe Pereira's Lab at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC-Coimbra). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Aveiro. Throughout that period, she interned at the iBiMED Institute and was also involved in the organization of scientific events as part of a multidisciplinary team in the junior enterprise Scientific Junior Value. She completed her master´s degree in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine at Nova University Lisbon in 2022. During the master's program, she had the opportunity to develop her dissertation project focused on the mechanisms of immune modulation during skeletal muscle regeneration at the Aging and Tissue Repair joint lab, Institute of Molecular Medicine (iMM), Lisbon. After finishing this project, she became a research fellow in the same lab, gaining further hands-on experience in cell culture, flow cytometry, microscopy, molecular biology, and data analysis. Her research at the Aging and Tissue Repair Lab contributed to two distinct publications, exposing her to the rigorous and challenging process of research article submission and peer review. She joined Filipe Pereira’s Immune Cell Reprogramming Lab at CNC as a research assistant in 2024. In her current lab, she enhanced her technical expertise, learning about cell reprogramming approaches and related techniques such as molecular cloning and viral production. She also improved her literature review and scientific writing skills by developing a review manuscript as first author and co-reviewed a manuscript for Science, a challenge that stimulated critical thinking and attention to detail. For 3.5 months, she joined the Pereira Lab team in Lund (Sweden), gaining experience in embryonic stem cell culture and improving her molecular biology expertise. Additionally, over the past years, she has participated in different courses and workshops to further improve her expertise, including training in flow cytometry and data analysis, iPSCs culture, Immunology, and Laboratory Animal Science.