Taissa Vila

Taissa Vila is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Before joining The Lancet Group, she worked as a Senior Post-doctoral Researcher at University of Maryland, Baltimore (USA) investigating drug resistance and cell signalling in mixed fungal-bacterial infections. She graduated with a BSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and obtained a MSc and a PhD degree in Cell Biology/Biophysics at the same university. This was followed by her post-doctoral research in drug discovery for recalcitrant fungal infections at University of Texas at San Antonio (USA).