Ana Teresa Tavares graduated in Biology from Faculdade de Ciências (UL, Lisbon) in 1993, and joined the Gulbenkian PhD Programme in Biology and Medicine in 1995. Ana developed her PhD studies at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, USA) and presented her thesis on Limb Development at Faculdade de Medicina (UL, Lisbon) in 2001. Ana’s postdoctoral studies were conducted at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras), and in 2007 she became an independent Research Fellow at the same institution. In 2009, Ana was granted a five-year Research Scientist position (FCT “Ciência 2007” programme) at the Vascular Development laboratory of Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (UL, Lisbon). In 2015, Ana integrated the Tissue Repair and Inflammation group at NOVA Medical School (UNL, Lisbon) as a senior Postdoctoral Researcher. Since 2011, Ana is also an invited Lecturer and Chair of Developmental Biology at ISPA – Instituto Universitário (Lisbon).
