Marta Lopes is a Biologist from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (2016). Interested in Oncology, she was involved in a project to study the expression of cytokeratin 19 and neu/HER2 in K14-HPV16 mice. In 2018, she received her Master's degree in Health Sciences from the University of Minho (2018), where she studied the effects of chronic stress in glioma aggressiveness at ICVS under the supervision of Dr. Ana João Rodrigues and Dr. Bruno Costa. In 2019, she received a research fellowship in the Basic & Clinical Research on Iron Biology group (i3S), under the supervision of Dr. Delfim Duarte to study the role of CD18 in the acute myeloid leukemia (AML) microenvironment. In 2021, she was awarded a PhD Research studentship in the 2021 competitive call of FCT, and currently she is a last year PhD Student in Biomedical Sciences from ICBAS-UP at Hematopoiesis and Microenvironments group (i3S) under the supervision of Dr. Delfim Duarte and co-supervision of Dr. Carla Oliveira. She has over 10 posters presentations, 6 oral communications, and 3 scientific meetings organization. She volunteered for the i3S Task-Force Covid-19, and was an i3S PhD Students Representative in 2022/2023. She tutored 6 students (MSc/medical), and co-supervised 1 MSc student. She is the first author of 2 publications, and has a total of 6 publications in journals, such as Leukemia, Blood Advances, and Frontiers in Oncology. She received 6 awards, including the National Hematology Award, DMM Conference travel grant, EHA Conference travel grants, and best poster award. Her PhD is focused on developing therapeutics approaches for AML. Specifically, she studied the impact of iron metabolism and cell competition in murine models of AML.