Telma Oshiro has a postdoctoral degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (USP) and a doctorate in the area of Immunology from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at USP.
She is currently a Researcher at the Laboratory of Medical Research in Dermatology and Immunodeficiencies at the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (HC-FMUSP), where she works in the area of cellular immunology, specifically in the study of dendritic cells for application in immunotherapy in the context of HIV infection.