Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences from the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas of Universidade de São Paulo. Master's student in the Graduate Program in Systems Biology at the Universidade de São Paulo, in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Gene Editing of Cancer at ICB-USP, supervised by Dr. Cesar Seigi Fuziwara. The research project investigates the role of human TERT and the regulation of its expression in aggressive thyroid cancer. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Thyroid cancer is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system and generally has a good clinical prognosis with surgical treatment and radioiodine therapy. However, a certain fraction of cases are aggressive and refractory to treatment. Mutations in the promoter of the TERT gene (TElomerase Reverse Transcriptase) are highly prevalent in aggressive thyroid carcinomas, especially in a…
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