Cátia Rodrigues graduated in 2023 in Applied Biology from the School of Sciences at the University of Minho, Braga. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Health Sciences at the School of Medicine, at the same University. During her bachelor’s degree, she joined the research team led by Agostinho Carvalho and Cristina Cunha at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), where she aimed to study the contribution of itaconate to the inflammatory response in sarcoidosis. She is currently engaged in the development of her master’s thesis, which focuses on elucidating the role of itaconate during granuloma formation in sarcoidosis, dissecting the molecular mechanisms by which this metabolite regulates this process, and investigating the role of genetic variants in ACOD1 as potential novel genetic susceptibility factors for sarcoidosis.