Biography:

Dr. Anna Karenina Azevedo-Martins studied Nutrition at the State University of Ceará, Brazil and graduated as MS in 1999 at the University of São Paulo (USP). Then she joined the research group of Prof. Sigurd Lenzen at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany, where she completed the first two years of her PhD. Anna received her PhD degree in 2004 at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences - USP. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Dr Rui Curi at the same institution, she obtained the position of Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities - USP. Since then, Anna has been studying beta cell biology in the context of gestational diabetes. She has published more than 20 research articles and 14 academic books and chapters.