I am an undergraduate student in the Biomedical Sciences course at ICB-USP and I am currently in my 8th semester. I joined the laboratory in the middle of 2019, but I have been part of the academic environment since my first semester going through different laboratories. In the pharmacogenomics laboratory, my scientific initiation project involves diabetes, microRNAs, cardiac complications such as heart failure and antidiabetic drugs (empagliflozin) trying to better understand the role of microRNAs in diabetes and its complications and in relation to the so-called “metabolic memory.