Ana Espirito Santo holds a PhD in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. She serves as a Senior Clinical Hematology Assistant at the Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Service of IPO Porto.
She is also a Professor of Hematology at the School of Medicine of Minho University.
As a researcher, Ana Espírito Santo is the coordinator of the Clinical Oncology Group (GOC) at the IPO Porto Research Center. GOC is a multidisciplinary group of researchers dedicated to addressing clinical questions arising from real-world needs by analyzing real-life data, with the aim of continuously improving the quality of treatment offered to patients.
She has participated in over 50 phase II/III clinical trials at IPO Porto, as National Coordinator, Principal Investigator or sub investigator.