Prof. Jacinta Serpa has a PhD in Human Biology from the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (2005) and graduated in Applied Biology from the Universidade dos Açores (1997). Since 2015, she has been the head of the Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironment Lab in Centro de estudos de Doenças Crónicas at NOVA Medical School (CEDOC|NMS) and the Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil (IPOLFG). Her main fields of interest are cancer metabolism, including metabolic adaptations allowing cancer cells to survive in certain stressful microenvironmental conditions, such as hypoxia and exposure to drugs; the tumor microenvironment and the metabolic and signaling cross-talk responsible for the modulation of cancer cell behavior by other cancer cells and by stromal cells; and the regulation of biological phenomena crucial for tumor growth and disease progression.