Ana M. Martins got her BSc and her PhD in Biochemistry (Enzymology) from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. Shortly after, she started her postdoctoral research in Biochemical Networks/Systems Biology at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, where she also worked as a Research Associate (2002-2009). AMM worked as an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Sharjah for 2 years (2011-2013), after which she started work as a Research Scientist in the area of Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Treatment at the American University of Sharjah (2013-2016). In 2016 she joined the lab of Prof. Judith Klinman at UC Berkeley, where she was a Visiting Scholar for 2 years, working in Protein and Peptide-derived Cofactors. She joined iMed as a Research Scientist in 2019 and has been working in the area of topical drug delivery/dosage forms, particularly in the development of conventional and advanced delivery systems for serotonergic drugs for the treatment of chronic inflammatory skin diseases.