Sabrina Epiphanio is a veterinarian (UNESP) with a PhD in Experimental and Comparative Pathology at USP. She held her post-doctorate in the Instituto de Medicina Molecular and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciências in Portugal (2003-2008) and taught at UNIFESP (2009-2013). She has developed projects in the area of malaria since 2003. She has experience in Pathology, Immunology, Cell and Molecular Biology, emphasizing protoparasitoses. She is a General Pathology and Pathophysiology professor at the Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analyses Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at São Paulo University with 60 published articles; currently, the average impact factor of publications is 6, and the H factor is 22 and more than 2000 citations.