Joana Bicker completed a PhD in Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra. She is currently working as Contracted Researcher at the University of Coimbra, in the scope of research project 4Epilepsy, with the goal of promoting the quality-of-life of epileptic patients through personalized medicine. She is also collaborating in another research project (N2BD) that intends to develop a novel nose-to-brain multifunctional nanoplatform for the treatment of depression and prevention of pharmacoresistance.