Isabel Maria Marques Carreira, Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra (FMUC) with Habilitation in Biomedicine since 2010. She got her PhD in Human Genetics, 1992 by the University of the Witwatersrand with its recognition in Biomedicine, 1993 by the University of Coimbra Faculty of Medicine. She is a Sub-Director for Services, Management, Organization and Human Resources of FMUC since 2017 and has also been member of the Faculty of Medicine Assembly and of the Scientific Council. She is also Head of the Cytogenetics and Genomics Laboratory in FMUC (LCG-FMUC), since 1992. Researcher and member of the Scientific Council of the Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research (iCBR), Coordinator of CIMAGO (Centre of Investigation in Environment, Genetics and Oncobiology) of FMUC, since 2009, where she coordinates the research group of Genetics. She is the PI of one research line in the consortium Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology (CIBB) - Biomarkers in Translational and Clinical Oncology. Member of several scientific societies, namely: - Portuguese Society of Human Genetics (SPGH) where was president twice (2006 and 2019) and is the coordinator since 2015 of the Commission for the Specialties of Clinical and Laboratory and Medical Genetics; - European Cytogenomics Association(ECA) where she is co-chair of the working group in small marker chromossomes; - European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) where she integrates as Co-Chair of the branch of Clinical Laboratory Genetics of the European Board of Medical Genetics (EBMG) of which she was president 2021/22. The branch of Clinical Laboratory Genetics has been responsible for the evaluation and attribution of the European titles on Clinical Laboratory Genetics (ErCLG) (>400 titles all over Europe). She is also Member (titular) of the National Academy of Medicine of Portugal. She had a long diagnostic laboratory genetics activity (LCG-FMUC) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra that goes from Cytogenetics, Molecular Cytogenetics, Cytogenomics and Molecular Genetics (PCRs, MLPA, from Sanger sequencing to NGS) (more than 100 000 tests). She has a very intense teaching and research activity mainly in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC) for students from the 2nd and 3rd cycle, where she is responsible as “Regente” of 13 subjects 2 of which in a collaboration with the Medical course in Açores and 2 with the Faculty of Medicine in Cape Verde. She created at FMUC a Masters in Clinical Laboratory Genetics that is currently in its 4th edition and running at full capacity. She has supervised and/or co-supervised over 10 PhD Thesis and more than 60 Master Thesis, coordinator/collaborator of 52 Investigation Projects. She published over 130 papers (H-index=30; citations 2946), more than 200 abstracts in international and national journals with peer review, 11 Book Chapters. She performed 200 invited talks in congresses and seminars, received over 20 prizes and awards and presented over 450 presentations in Congress.