Tânia Costa currently serves as the Head of People & Culture at iBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica since September 2023. Prior to this role, Tânia held various significant positions in Human Resources, including Senior HR Adviser, Executive Coach, and Career Counselor from March 2020 to August 2023, and served as a Senior Consultant/Project Manager at Mercer Portugal from March 2014 to February 2020, focusing on the design and management of strategic HR projects across multiple sectors. Additional experience includes roles at Accenture as HR Specialist, Hovione as Organizational Development Consultant, and Sales Hunters as Senior Consultant. Tânia holds a degree in Sociology from Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, complemented by education at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
iBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica
iBET is a private non-profit research institution specialized in biotechnology research and bioprocess development. iBET acts as an interface between academia and industry while also creating and organizing autonomous knowledge. Our expertise includes the development of bioprocesses for complex biopharmaceuticals and advanced therapies, including vaccines, recombinant proteins, and viral vectors for gene and onco- therapy, stem cells for cell therapy applications; development of in-vitro cell models and protocols for pre-clinical research; analytical tools for quality control of biologics; and structural biology for assisted drug design. Within Food and Health, we develop new solutions for the detection of food frauds, food and water-borne pathogens, and work on the discovery of new bioactive food supplements. To address some environmental issues, we also develop new sustainable, energy saving, processes for both food and water industries. iBET’s infrastructure comprises more than 20 R&D laboratories, a GMP certified Analytical Services Unit, a Mass Spectrometry Unit and a Late-Stage R&D and Bioproduction Unit (2000m2). The new iBET Biofarma building added 29 laboratories to its research and analytical platform infrastructure, including one BLS3 Lab. As an R&D institution, iBET has coordinated over 30 international projects and participated as work-package leader in more than 100 EU-funded projects. iBET has also been involved in some of the most prestigious RD&I and technology transfer projects, with remarkable international impact and has several well established collaborations in Networks of Excellence and with international pharmaceutical companies, such as Bayer, Novartis, Merck, Abbvie, Sanofi, Apceth, AstraZeneca, Glaxo-Smith-Kline , Merck & Co., among others. iBET’s success relies heavily on its large staff of over 250 people, of which about 110 have a PhD degree, and who contribute with advanced skills and experience to our areas of expertise.