M. Helena Vasconcelos is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Biological Sciences of FFUP (Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto) and Leader of the Cancer Drug Resistance Group at i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto), Portugal. Her research focuses on the identification and validation of biomarkers and therapeutic targets to overcome drug resistance in cancer. She has been studying Extracellular Vesicles as a source of biomarkers of drug resistance and their role in the intercellular communication between tumour cells and between those cells and the tumour microenvironment. Helena was a founding member and is President of the General Assembly of “Associação PNEV – Portuguese Network on Extracellular Vesicles” since July 2024.