Bárbara Sarni Sanches

Medical student at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) attending the seventh period, with graduation expected to 2025. Participated of two extension projects, one aiming to welcome and instruct mothers that were participants on a research analyzing the long-term impact of polluents in child development and one in the spectrum of taking care of people by telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, she is an scholarship monitor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of UFRJ (ICB/UFR), vice president of the Academic League of Oncology and Hematology of UFRJ (LAHO) and integrates as a scientific initiation student a research on incidence and clinical/morphological characterization of malignant lymphoproliferative neoplasms in children and adolescents with vertical transmission of HIV at the Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Child and Adolescent Health (NTISCA) - IPPMG/UFRJ. Received 3 awards for the research project, 2 of them for oral presentations made by her. The most recent award received was for best work in Pediatric Hematology category at the Brazilian Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy Congress (HEMO/ABHH).