Tania Beatriz Creczynski-Pasa graduated in Pharmacy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1986), received a master's degree in Biological Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1990), and received a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1994) with part of the work being conducted at the Universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg (Germany). She is currently a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She has experience in Pharmacy and Biochemistry and is currently working mainly in the investigation of new strategies for cancer treatment and diagnosis, including approaches with siRNAs and miRNAs. The approach with miRNAs includes cellular and exosomal methodologies and with siRNAs, nanocarriers are used for transfection.