Maria Alice Freitas Queiroz is a pharmacist–biochemist with a master's degree and a doctorate in the biology of infectious and parasitic agents from UFPA. She is a postdoctoral fellow in nanobiotechnology and epidemiology (UFPA). She is an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Pará and a researcher of infectious agents and immunology at the Laboratory of Virology. She develops research projects on markers of infection progression for diseases caused by HTLV and is involved in theranostics using HTLV, HIV, and Chlamydia trachomatis as models of infectious agents in the search for molecules for diagnosis and treatment.