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Andre Carvalho Scientist
Early Detection Prevention and Infections

Year Degree Major Institution Country/Town
2017 MPH Health Services University of Washington USA / Seattle
2006 Habilitation Oncology Sao Paulo University Brazil / Sao Paulo
2004 Postdoctoral Fellowship Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins University USA / Baltimore
2002 PhD Oncology (clinical research track) Sao Paulo University Brazil / Sao Paulo
1993 MD Medicine Pontifical Catholic University Brazil / Campinas
Current Research Projects

Cancer Screening in 5 Continents (CanScreen5)
Basu P, Lucas E, Carvalho AL, Sauvaget C, Muwonge R, Herrero R, Sankaranarayanan R

Development, field testing and evaluation of the efficacy of a hand-held, portable and affordable thermo-coagulator to prevent cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries
Basu P, Parham G, Lucas E, Muwonge R, Carvalho AL, Prendiville W

Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN) - Policy interventions to reduce health inequalities in cancer screening
Eikemo TA, Carvalho AL, Lucas E, Balaj M, Todd A, Bambra C, Basu P

Selected Publications

Jiang X, Finucane HK, Schumacher FR, Schmit SL, Tyrer JP, Han Y, Michailidou K, Lesseur C, Kuchenbaecker KB, Dennis J, Conti DV, Casey G, Gaudet MM, Huyghe JR, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Andrew AS, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antoniou AC, Antonenkova NN, Arnold SM, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Bandera EV, Barkardottir RB, Barnes DR, Batra J, Beckmann MW, Benitez J, Benlloch S, Berchuck A, Berndt SI, Bickeböller H, Bien SA, Blomqvist C, Boccia S, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brenton JD, Brook MN, Brunet J, Brunnström H, Buchanan DD, Burwinkel B, Butzow R, Cadoni G, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Campbell PT, Cancel-Tassin G, Cannon-Albright L, Campa D, Caporaso N, Carvalho AL, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen C, Christiani DC, Claes KBM, Claessens F, Clements J, et al., Lane JM, Saxena R, Thomas D, Hung RJ, Diergaarde B, McKay J, Peters U, Hsu L, García-Closas M, Eeles RA, Chenevix-Trench G, Brennan PJ, Haiman CA, Simard J, Easton DF, Gruber SB, Pharoah PDP, Price AL, Pasaniuc B, Amos CI, Kraft P, Lindström S. Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers. Nature Communications (2019) 10(1):431

Santos MTD, Buzolin AL, Gama RR, Silva ECAD, Dufloth RM, Figueiredo DLA, Carvalho AL. Molecular Classification of Thyroid Nodules with Indeterminate Cytology: Development and Validation of a Highly Sensitive and Specific New miRNA-Based Classifier Test Using Fine-Needle Aspiration Smear Slides. Thyroid (2018) doi: 10.1089/thy.2018.0254

Bailey MH, Tokheim C, Porta-Pardo E, Sengupta S, Bertrand D, Weerasinghe A, Colaprico A, Wendl MC, Kim J, Reardon B, Ng PK, Jeong KJ, Cao S, Wang Z, Gao J, Gao Q, Wang F, Liu EM, Mularoni L, Rubio-Perez C, Nagarajan N, Cortés-Ciriano I, Zhou DC, Liang WW, Hess JM, Yellapantula VD, Tamborero D, Gonzalez-Perez A, Suphavilai C, Ko JY, Khurana E, Park PJ, Van Allen EM, Liang H; MC3 Working Group; Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, Lawrence MS, Godzik A, Lopez-Bigas N, Stuart J, Wheeler D, Getz G, Chen K, Lazar AJ, Mills GB, Karchin R, Ding L. Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations. Cell (2018) 173(2):371-385

Arantes LMRB, De Carvalho AC, Melendez ME, Lopes Carvalho AL. Serum, plasma and saliva biomarkers for head and neck cancer. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. (2018) 18(1):85-112

DE Souza Sabino SM, Silva TB, Watanabe AH, Syrjänen K, Carvalho AL, Mauad EC. Implementation of a clinical quality control program in a mammography screening service of Brazil. Anticancer Res. (2014) 34(9):5057-65

Prizes, Honours

2018 “Octavio Frias de Oliveira” Award on Innovation in Oncolgy. Sao Paulo State Cancer Institute.
2018 Merit Award, Translational Research, XVIII Thyroid Brazilian Meeting.
2016 “Fleury Award” in Innovation.
2015 “Abril Health!” Award, Oral Health category. Abril Publisher.
2013 “Octavio Frias de Oliveira” Award, Research in Oncology category. Sao Paulo State Cancer Institute.
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Published in section: WHO'S WHO

Publication date: 9 January, 2019, 14:03

Direct link: https://www.iarc.who.int/staff_member/andre-carvalho/

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