Ph.D. Student
KU Leuven, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Virology & Chemotherapy, Belgium
Nânci Ferreira holds a BSc in Bioanalytical Sciences and a MSc in Clinical Analysis from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She conducted her MSc research at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, where she studied the antiviral activity of natural compounds (algae and olive extracts) against a modified lentivirus and Coxsackievirus A12. After that she was selected for the project INSEAFOOD, where she tested environmental samples (water and bivalve molluscs) for the presence of enteric virus: Norovirus, Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E virus. Since then she has working in the virology field, studying the prevalence of several viruses in environmental and biological samples. She is now a PhD student in the OrganoVIR program and she focus in exploring novel antiviral strategies to combat human norovirus and rotavirus infections by using gut organoids.