Current Lab Members

Ana Valeria Barros de Castro

Senior Staff Scientist (2016-)
It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring, to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God. - Francis Collins

Houtan Noushmehr

Principal Investigator (2012 - )
I don't always work but when I do, I prefer to explore the human genome. Stay fresh my friends!

Indrani Datta

Bioinformatician (2019-)

Jim M Snyder

Clinical Neuro-Oncologist (2016-)

Karam Asmaro

Resident Neurosurgeon (2019-)

Maritza Queiroz Salas Mosella

PhD Student (2015-)

Michael Wells

Research Programmer (2018-)

Mircea Tesileanu

Bioinformatician (2020-)

She Ruicong (Ricky)

Bioinformatician (2019-)

Thaís Sarraf Sabedot

Research Scientist (2012-)
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius

Collaborators and Consortiums

TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) Research Network

(2009-)

Hermelin Brain Tumor Center (HBTC)

(2016-)

Antonio Iavarone

Professor at Columbia University

Simone Niclou

Professor Luxembourg Institute of Health

Pim French

Professor - Erasmus Medical Center

Ana deCarvalho

Associate Scientist

ICOM (International Consortium of Meningioma)

(2015-)

HK Ng

Professor of Pathology - University of Hong Kong

Laila Poisson

Associate Scientist

Ian Lee

Senior Neurosurgeon

GLASS (Glioma Longitudinal AnalySiS) Consortium

(2016-)

Martin van den Bent

Professor - Erasmus Medical Center

Tobias Walbert

Clinical Neuro-Oncologist

Brain-LBC (Brain Liquid Biopsy Consortium)

(2019-)

Current and Previous Funding Support

The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

Henry Ford Health System

Philanthropy Support

Hermelin Brain Tumor Center (HBTC)

(2016-)

University of São Paulo (USP)

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense Medical Research

Previous Lab Members (Alumni)

Camila Ferreira de Souza

Post-Doctor Fellow (2014-2018)

Emerson Urushibata

Undergraduate Research Fellow (2013-2015)

Felipe Segato

Undergraduate Research Fellow | Research Programmer (2014-2018)

Fernanda Carvalho

PhD Student (2014-2015)

Jessica Temporal

Undergraduate Research Fellow (2013-2015)
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. - Isaac Asimov

Marcos Abraão de Souza Fonseca

Post-Doctor Fellow (2015-2018)

Mikely Fernanda Saraiva da Silva

Undergraduate Research Fellow (2013-2015)

Natalia Cruz

Undergraduate Research Fellow (2013-2015)

Simon Coetzee

Data management coordinator (2011-2014)
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -Yogi Berra

Tarcísio Giroldo

Undergraduate Research Fellow (2013-2015)

Tathiane Maistro Malta Pereira

Post-Doctor Fellow (2012-2019)

Tiago Chedraoui Silva

Masters Student | PhD Student | Post-Doctor Fellow (2014-2020)

Victor Hugo Calegari de Toledo

Undergraduate Research Fellow (2015-2016)

Virginia Wagatsuma

Post-Doctor Fellow (2013-2014)