Sara Santos Bernardes (S.S.B.)

Sara Santos Bernardes holds a PhD in Experimental Pathology and is an Assistant Professor of General Pathology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). She has been studying melanoma pathophysiology since 2011 and recently joined M4i as a visiting researcher (July 2025 – June 2026). Her research, supervised by Dr. Sebastiaan Van Nuffel, focuses on the spatial distribution of lipids in melanoma using ToF-SIMS and MALDI-MSI.