Rate My Professor Ester Sabino

Her primary research areas include transfusion safety, HIV, Chagas disease, emerging viruses, and sickle cell anemia. She contributed to the rapid genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil as part of a Brazilian research team. Sabino is a full member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências and has received the Medalha Armando Salles de Oliveira from the Universidade de São Paulo as well as the 2026 TWAS Prize in Medical Health Sciences. She acts as principal investigator for NIH-supported programs including the Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-IV Pediatric and the São Paulo-Minas Gerais Neglected Tropical Disease Research Center for Biomarker Discovery.