Alice Santos-Silva is a Full Professor with Habilitation at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, and an Integrated Researcher at the Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO), from REQUIMTE (Rede de Química e Tecnologia). She received her PhD in Pharmacy, with a specialty in Biochemistry from the University of Porto. Her main fields of teaching and research are hematology, clinical biochemistry, cell biology, kidney disease, and pathophysiology.