Marta Piche-Ovares is a Research Assistant at the Department of Virology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Universidad Nacional (UNA). She is also an Investigator at the Virology Laboratory of the Research Center for Tropical Diseases (CIET) at Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR). In 2013, she obtained her DVM from UNA, and then in 2019, she obtained her MSc. in Microbiology with emphasis in virology from UCR. Dr. Piche has worked in different topics of virology, especially in arbovirus. Her research interest focuses mostly on arbovirus disease specially in alphaviruses and flaviviruses.