Prof. Dr. Raquel Soares has been a Full Professor at FMUP since 2012 and Group leader of "Metabesity" at i3s, "Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde". She concluded her aggregation title in Metabolism—Clinic, and Experimental in 2009 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), her PhD in Human Biology in 2003 at FMUP, and her Master's degree in Oncobiology in 1996. In 1986, she graduated in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. Until 2020, she coordinated the unit of Biochemistry, Department of Biomedicine, and managed the Nobre lab, a laboratory of research support in the biochemistry domain for Ph.D. and master students, clinicians, technicians of any other department or institution. Since 2009, she has been Director of the PhD Program in "Metabolism—Clinic and Experimental" located at FMUP. She has published 351 full papers in ISI indexed journals, as well as 13 book chapters, and edited one book. She was a member of the organization committee of 23 congresses and other events. Raquel Soares has supervised 17 PhD theses to completion (9 as co-supervisor), 31 Master's degree dissertations (6 as co-supervisor), and 7 BSc degree reports (2 as co-supervisor). She was the PI of 18 research projects and co-author of another 29. Her field of research is in biomedical and health sciences, with special emphasis on vascular complications and crosstalk with metabolism in diabetes, obesity, and their association with cancer.