Marta Amaro obtained her MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon in 2024. She developed her Master's thesis in joint collaboration with the Cancer Dormancy & Immunity Laboratory at the Champalimaud Foundation and INESC-ID in Lisbon, under the supervision of Ana Luísa Correia and Emanuel Gonçalves, and focused on leveraging computational biology to investigate the role of Natural Killer (NK) cells in the formation of breast cancer liver metastases. Specifically, she explored metabolic and cytotoxicity changes in NK cells at the transcriptomic level across different liver sub-microenvironments, and how they contribute to the switch from dormancy to metastasis at this major site of metastasis.

In January 2025, after successfully defending her Master’s Thesis, Marta embraced a new position as a Research Assistant in the Cancer Dormancy & Immunity Laboratory, in co-share with the Health Data Science & Genomics research group led by João Guimarães at the Faculty of Medicine in Lisbon. In hopes of contributing to cancer research, Marta aims to continue expanding her computational expertise in support of the lab's multiple research projects involving high-dimensional and big data analysis.