Flávia Geraldes is a Senior Editor at The Lancet. She is one of the journal’s Cardiology Ambassadors and a member of The Lancet’s Fast Track team, handling high-impact submissions requiring fast turnaround. In addition to cardiology, her main topic of interest is oncology, but she handles a wide range of manuscripts on clinical topics, especially randomised clinical trials. Prior to joining The Lancet in 2020, she worked as Journal Development Specialist for the journal Frontiers in Oncology, and before that she was Scientific Officer at the Division of Clinical Studies of the Institute of Cancer Research (London, UK), where she worked on DNA sequencing studies for clinical trials of targeted therapies for ovarian, lung, and prostate cancer. Flávia holds a degree in Biomedical Science in Histocellular Pathology from the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.