Luciana Padua Tavares has a PhD in Biochemistry and Immunology from the Institute of Biological Sciences at UFMG. She completed a training period at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, under the supervision of Professor Dr. François Trottein. She also held a sandwich doctorate at Harvard University/Brigham and Women's Hospital under the guidance of Professor Dr. Bruce D. Levy. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of Dr. Bruce Levy and is the co-chair of the International Committee of Young Investigators in Immunopharmacology - Immuphar - IUPHAR. Her research interests include immunology, microbiology, virology, physiology, and biochemistry.