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I am currently the medical coordinator of the pathology department at Rede D’OR-São Luiz, São Paulo, Brazil. I am specialist in uropathology, pediatric and soft tissue and bone pathology. I am also responsible for the molecular pathology applied to cancer diagnosis. My main research area refers to the identification of prognosis and predictive biomarkers in tumors as well as to refine tumor pathology entities and classifications.
EDUCATION
MD, Medicine, Faculdade de ciências médicas de Minas Gerais
PhD, Oncology, Fundação Antônio Prudente- A.C. Camargo
Visitor Fellow, NIH, Bethesda-USA
INVESTIGATION AREAS
Pathology
Pediatrics
ADITIONAL INFORMATION
AWARDS AND HONORS
Member of the expert committee of World Health Organization (WHO) for Soft Tissue and Bone tumors classification.
Vice president of the Brazilian Society of Pathology
Coordinator of Pathology in Latin American of the SIOP (Sociedad Internacional de Oncologie Pediatric) 2016 Umbrella Protocol on Renal Tumor Study Group
Coordinator of Pathology of LARCG (Latin American Renal Cancer Group)
Member of “Young Medical Leaders” of the National Academy of Medicine
Trpkov K, Hes O, Williamson SR, Adeniran AJ, Agaimy A, Alaghehbandan R, Amin MB, Argani P, Chen YB, Cheng L, Epstein JI, Cheville JC, Comperat E, da Cunha IW, et al. New developments in existing WHO entities and evolving molecular concepts: The Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS) update on renal neoplasia. Mod Pathol. 2021 Mar 4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33664427.
doi: 10.1038/s41379-021-00779-w
Trpkov K, Williamson SR, Gill AJ, Adeniran AJ, Agaimy A, Alaghehbandan R, Amin MB, Argani P, Chen YB, Cheng L, Epstein JI, Cheville JC, Comperat E, da Cunha IW, et al. Novel, emerging and provisional renal entities: The Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS) update on renal neoplasia. Mod Pathol. 2021 Feb 1. . Epub ahead of print. Erratum in: Mod Pathol. 2021 Mar 16;: PMID: 33526874
doi: 10.1038/s41379-021-00737-6
Epstein JI, Amin MB, Fine SW, Algaba F, Aron M, Baydar DE, Beltran AL, Brimo F, Cheville JC, Colecchia M, Comperat E, da Cunha IW, et al. The 2019 Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS) White Paper on Contemporary Grading of Prostate Cancer. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2021 Apr 1;145(4):461-493. PMID: 32589068. [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 26]
doi: 10.5858/arpa.2020-0015-RA
Eich ML, Rodriguez Pena MDC, Springer SU, Taheri D, Tregnago AC, Salles DC, Bezerra SM, Cunha IW, Fujita K, Ertoy D, Bivalacqua TJ, Tomasetti C, Papadopoulos N, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Netto GJ. Incidence and distribution of UroSEEK gene panel in a multi-institutional cohort of bladder urothelial carcinoma. Mod Pathol. 2019 Apr 25.[Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31028363.
doi: 10.1038/s41379-019-0276-y
Santos M, Coudry RA, Ferreira CG, Stefani S, Cunha IW, Zalis MG, Araujo LH. Increasing access to next-generation sequencing in oncology for Brazil. Lancet Oncol. 2019 Jan;20(1):20-23. PubMed PMID: 30614460.
doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30822-2
