Andreia Pinho is a PhD student in ReNEU team at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) – University of Minho. She completed her Biochemistry degree in 2017 (Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto) and her MSc in Health Sciences in 2019 (School of Medicine, University of Minho). During her scientific path she was involved in projects from basic to applied research sciences where she was able to study, optimize and perform in vitro to in vivo analysis. Thus, on i3S she studied the requirement of an upstream sequence element (a non-coding region of our DNA) in the regulation of protein expression whereas on ICVS she dissect the therapeutic value of stem cells secretome (biofactors secreted by these cells) as a whole versus it’s individual proteic or vesicular fraction in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) context. While dissecting the secretome therapeutic effect she met microglia cells which caught her attention. For this reason, she enrolled in a PhD to further dissect the neuroinflammation contribution to SCI pathophysiology. Therefore, her main focus is to dissect microglia-neutrophil interaction in SCI, exploring how neutrophils as peripheral immune cells shape microglia behavior and local inflammation.