Dr Rita Elias, PhD student, iMed.ULisboa - Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Dr Rita Elias, PhD student in Pharmacy, iMed.ULisboa – Instituto de Investigação do Medicamento Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Rita Elias is a PhD student in pharmacy at Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), from Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.  Her research interests fall upon the field of clinical microbiology and epidemiology, focused on the analysis of genome-wide data obtained through next generation sequencing platforms with the purpose of identifying and characterizing the emergence of novel resistance and virulence mechanisms in Klebsiella pneumoniae.