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Portuguese, I have been involved in Cancer Research since 1996 at IPATIMUP/Porto (supervision of Prof. Sobrinho-Simões), working on thyroid cancer genetics. In 1997, GABBA Ph.D. fellow (Porto University) and started in 1998 the Ph.D. at IARC/Lyon on the molecular pathology of brain tumors (supervision of Prof. Paul Kleihues / Hiroko Ohgaki / Jose M Lopes). In 2002, a post-doc at the VUMC/Amsterdam and IPATIMUP (co-supervision of Prof. Gerrit Meijer / Bauke Ylstra / Prof. Fátima Carneiro) on chromosomal aberrations of gastric tumors. In 2003, I was appointed Assistant Professor of Human Genetics at the Medical Faculty of Minho University, Braga, Portugal, and Group Leader of Oncobiology. In 2010, at Barretos Cancer Hospital/Brazil, I coordinator of the Molecular Oncology Research Center and Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory; in,Scientific Director, and from 2018 to 2021, Executive Director of the 2015 appointed Research and Teaching Institute. In 2021, I was appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Pan African Cancer Research Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
My expertise is in cancer biomarkers across distinct tumor types and applying different methodologies, from SNP, gene mutations, and copy number aberrations to gene expression alterations.
Experience in international collaborations: COST - Molecular cytogenetics of solid tumors; Marie Curie Conferences -Genome Architecture in Relation to Disease; SIOP, Brain Tumor Committee; IMMENSE consortium; ILCCO consortium: member and local coordinator of NCI-LACRN; Steering Committee of ICGC; Steering Committee of WIN; member and local coordinator of Mutograph (CRUK Grand Challenge).