Affiliation: Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Farmácia, Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento; CBIOS-Universidade Lusófona´s Research Center for Biosciences & Health Technologies, Portugal

Vera Isca is currently a PhD student at the PhD Program in Pharmacy, a collaboration of Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon and CBIOS - Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, financed by FCT. She has completed her BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Beira Interior, in 2010 and her MSc in Organic Chemistry and Natural Products from the University of Aveiro in 2013. She has laboratory skills in Organic Chemistry, Phytochemistry, Spectroscopic and Separation Techniques, and molecular docking. She has participated in three research projects, from July 2017 to December 2018, financed by FCT through three investigation grants. She has also published 11 international journal articles, reviews, and papers with referees, a book chapter in the book: Natural Products: Research Reviews. (2012), 20 oral communications, 45 poster presentations, and has received 4 awards in national and international meetings.