Luisa Helguero is Assistant Professor in the field of Biomedicine at Universidade de Aveiro. Her work focuses on steroid hormone action, mammary epithelial differentiation, and breast cancer metabolism. She obtained her PhD at the University of Buenos Aires where she characterized a murine breast cancer model. Prior to University of Aveiro, she was researcher at Jan-Åke Gustafsson´s Lab in Karolinska Institutet, where she investigated how estrogen receptors regulate cell adhesion, and became well acquainted with molecular and cellular biology methods. Since settling down in Portugal, she leads the Hormones & Cancer Lab at the Aveiro Institute of Biomedicine, where she applies large-scale molecular technologies, (proteomics and metabolomics), mechanistic molecular research and histology to reveal cellular pathways underlying mammary epithelial cell differentiation and metabolic adaptations in breast cancer progresion.