Carolina Victória Cruz Junho is a doctoral student in biotechnosciences at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). She has experience in physiology, with an emphasis on cardiovascular physiology and cellular immunology. She received a scholarship from the Institution Foundation for Research Support of the State of SP (FAPESP) for a project entitled "Role of the Klotho/FGF23 axis in the development of type 3 cardiorenal syndrome induced by ischemic kidney injury" with a sandwich period at Hospital 12 de Octubre, in Madrid (Spain), at the Translational Laboratory of Cardiorenal Syndrome, supervised by Gema Ruiz Hurtado and financed by FAPESP