Prof. Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto is a Full Professor at the Laboratory of Virology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil. He graduated in Biomedicine from UFPA in 1993, completed his Master's in the field of Genetics and Molecular Biology in 1996, and obtained his  Doctorate in the Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents in 2001 from the Institute of Biological Sciences at UFPA. He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow at level 1B.