Graduate from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, from São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Pharmacy and Biochemistry (1988). Has a Ph.D. in Pathologic Anatomy at Campinas State University’s School of Medicine (UNICAMP) for developing a research of high-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV), using the in-situ hybridization technique to typify HPV16 and HPV18 in paraffin embedded sections from endoscopic biopsies of esophageal lesions. After her doctorate, she continued molecular studies with low-risk HPV (6 and 11) and high-risk HPV (16 and 18) in oral cancer biopsies in collaboration with the Department of Pathology, at the School of Dentistry of Araraquara (UNESP). Her first post-doctorate study was accomplished at the University of São Paulo’s School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto (FMUSP), under the supervision of Ph.D. Eduardo Antônio Donadi, evaluating RNA’s expression in head and neck cancer using microarray technology. . After that, she was accepted to a second post-doctoral study in Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, at the Department of Infectious Diseases, under the supervision of Ph.D. Karl Munger. There, she worked with natural compounds in keratinocytes transfected with E6, E7 and E6^E7 DNA of HPV16.