Prof. Dr. Cristiane Flora Villarreal holds a PhD in Pharmacology from the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo. She has been a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain since 2005, from which she received the "IASP Award for Excellence in Pain Research and Management in Developing Countries". Currently, she is a full professor of Pharmacology at the Federal University of Bahia and a collaborating researcher at FIOCRUZ. She is also a professor on the permanent staff of the Postgraduate Program in Pharmacy at UFBA and the Postgraduate Program in Biotechnology in Health and Investigative Medicine at FIOCRUZ. She has experience in coordinating network research projects and works on technological development projects. Currently, her main areas of activity are the development of analgesics and anti-inflammatories; bioprospecting and pharmacology of natural products; biopharmaceuticals and advanced cell therapy products; cellular therapy in neuropathic pain; and pathophysiology of chronic pain.