Tiana Tasca is a pharmacist who graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) (Porto Alegre, Brazil) in 1998. She holds an M.Sc. in the Ecology and Evolution of Biodiversity from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS, 2001) (Porto Alegre, Brazil), and received her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) with a sandwich from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Texas, USA) in 2005, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. João José Freitas Sarkis and Dr. John Fernando Alderete. Since 2006, she has held the professor position at the Faculty of Pharmacy of UFRGS, leading the research group “Trichomonas Research Group”. Her research interests are focused on parasitology and cellular biology, working mainly on the following topics: Trichomonas vaginalis, purinergic signaling, ectonucleotidases, ATP, adenosine, pathogenicity, antiprotozoal activity, and cell death in amitochondriate organisms.