Silvana graduated in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University (FCUP) of Porto in 2017 obtained her Master's degree in Oncology from Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS) in 2019. During 2020 she was a Research Fellow in the Expression Regulation in Cancer group. She is currently a PhD student from the Doctoral Programme on Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology Applied to Health Sciences (BiotechHealth) from ICBAS.