PROFESSOR ISCIA LOPES-CENDES
Professor Iscia Lopes-Cendes is a physician-scientist and a professor of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She is also a principal investigator at the Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN, www.brainn.org.br) a renowned center for research, innovation, and dissemination of science in Brazil. She works in the field of neurogenetics using cutting-edge multi-omics techniques to study the genetic aspects of neurological disorders. In 2015 she played a crucial role in establishing the Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine (BIPMed, www.bipmed.org). This initiative resulted in the creation of the first public genomic database in Latin America, laying the groundwork for genomic testing in Brazil. Dr. Lopes-Cendes’s contributions to science are well-documented with over 278 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and an h-index of 58 (Google Scholar). She is a member of both the Brazilian Academy of Science and the São Paulo Academy of Science. Additionally, Dr. Lopes-Cendes works as an attending physician at the outpatient clinics of the UNICAMP University hospital.
