Dr. Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira has received a PharmD from UFMG, an M.Sc. in Material and Nuclear Sciences from CDTN, and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from UW-Madison, without losing focus on what made her interested in research in the first place: making people’s lives better. Dr. Carolina Ferreira was also a post doc at Harvard Medical School and UW-Madison. Dr. Ferreira is now an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Radiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology and Biomedical Engineering at Michigan State University. Dr. Carolina Ferreira has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals and won three Young Investigator Awards from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), and made the SNMMI’s “Ones to Watch” list in 2021.