Eduardo José Melo dos Santos graduated in biomedicine at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in 1990; he has an MSc in genetics from the University of São Paulo (1992) and a PhD from UFPA/Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany (1999). He received postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, USA (2009) and the University of Liverpool, UK (2015). He has been a docent at the Institute of Biological Sciences (UFPA) since 1992 and achieved full professor status by 2016. His research areas include population genetics, biostatistics, bioinformatics, immunogenetics, the genetics of complex disease, host genetics in infectious diseases, one health, epidemiology, public health and biological threats.