Manuela B. Pucca (27th December 1982) holds a bachelor in Biomedicine (2004) and an MSc (2008) and a PhD (2012) in Immunology, Department of Biochemistry and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. From 2012–2016, she was a postdoc fellow of the Animal Toxins Laboratory at the Department of Physics and Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Moreover, she performed a 1-year postdoc (2014–2015) in the Laboratory of Toxicology and Food Chemistry at the Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven), Leuven, Belgium, under the supervision of Dr. Jan Tytgat. Since 2016, she has been a full-time professor at the Medical School of the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR), Boa Vista, Brazil. Recently (2018–2020), she completed a postdoc at the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), in Lyngby, Denmark, under the supervision of Dr. Andreas H. Laustsen. Dr. Pucca's research is focused on immunotoxinology, especially regarding the discovery of human recombinant antivenoms and bioprospection of venom-derived peptides, such as scorpion neurotoxins and snake enzymes. Also, she leads clinical projects in the main hospital of Roraima aiming to understand the severity of local snakebite envenomings. Manuela is also the group leader of the Brazilian Bioprospection and Tropical Disease research group and of Snakebite Roraima.