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Carolina Dias completed her BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Algarve in 2019. During that period, she organized and participated in several science-related events and volunteered at the microbiology laboratory of Centro de Investigação em Biomedicina (CBMR) for one semester in 2018. She did an internship in the last year of her BSc at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) under the supervision of Professor Paula Soares. Her work focused on the validation studies for Uromonitor®, a sensitive urine-based assay for the detection of bladder cancer recurrences. She then participated as a research fellow in the project "TERT promoter mutations detection in bladder cancer" (ref UROEVERIS) and published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2021 as a co-author (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89906-w). Soon after, she completed her MSc in Oncology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar University of Porto in 2021. Her Master's thesis was also performed at i3S but in collaboration with Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João, focusing on the molecular characterization of a series of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinomas. This work resulted in an original article in the journal Diagnostics in 2023 (doi:10.3390/diagnostics13010153). After completing her MSc thesis, she continued as a research fellow at i3S and participated in several projects, including 10.1093/eurpub/ckab120.001, doi: 10.1200/JCO.2022.40.6_suppl.471 and ISSN: 1646-3439. In April 2022, she was awarded an internship (Estágios ATIVAR.pt) at U-Monitor, granted by Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP). During her still short but intensive career, she has accumulated advanced technical expertise in the laboratory and also participated in several courses and conferences with poster and oral communications. She is now pursuing a PhD in EV cancer research at the "Intercellular Communication and Cancer" group from i3S-IPATIMUP, under the supervision of Doctor Sónia Melo.