Marco Alberto Medeiros has a PhD in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFP) and carried out post-doctoral studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the Pasteur Institute and Yale University.
He worked as a visiting researcher at the GSK Vaccine Development Center in Siena, Italy, and currently holds the position of Technological and Academic Innovation advisor in the deputy directorate of Innovation at the Institute of Technology in Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos / Fiocruz).