Célia Ventura

Célia Ventura is a researcher in the Genetic Toxicology Group of the Department of Human Genetics at the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA), where she began her work in 1993, in the molecular diagnosis of hereditary coagulopathies. After her PhD in Public Health in 2019, she moved to the R&D Unit, being involved in several national and European projects on genetic toxicology. Her main research area is the study of the effects of environmental agents on the human genome and epigenome, at the level of gene expression, DNA methylation, and miRNA expression. She holds a master's degree in Bioethics (2008) and has been a member of several Ethics Committees. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Society of Human Genetics from 2025 to 2027, President of the Society in 2026, and was Secretary of the Board in 2020.