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Dr. Filipe de Carvalho obtained his MD degree from University of Porto, Portugal. He then moved to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to perform the experimental work of his PhD. Dr. de Carvalho completed his Urology Residency at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Urologic Oncology Fellowship at Harvard. Dr. de Carvalho's research interests integrate genomic and transcriptomic data with pre-clinical models to define molecular mechanisms of cancer progression and resistance to therapy, with a particular focus on bladder cancer. Dr. de Carvalho has been recognized as a Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Young Investigator and a Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellow. Dr. de Carvalho is also the recipient of an Early-Career Investigator Award by the American Urological Association Research Forum.