Dr. Ana Carolina Proenca Da Fonseca, PhD is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. She holds a master's degree (2014) and a doctorate (2019) from the Postgraduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz/RJ). She has experience in the area of Human and Medical Molecular Genetics, Epidemiology, and Molecular Biology, working mainly in diseases such as polygenic and monogenic obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases.