Rate My Professor Iscia Lopes-Cendes

Iscia Teresinha Lopes-Cendes is a Full Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). She earned her medical degree from UNICAMP in 1987 and completed a residency in pediatrics at the same institution in 1990. She obtained her Ph.D. from McGill University in 1999. Her research focuses on neurogenetics, with emphasis on genetic and phenotypic markers in neurologic disorders, particularly epilepsies, using multi-omics approaches including next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, non-coding RNAs, and single-cell techniques.

Professor Lopes-Cendes serves as head of the Neurogenetics outpatient clinic at UNICAMP University Hospital and director of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics. She is a principal investigator at the Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN). She pioneered the first presymptomatic testing clinic for late-onset neurodegenerative disorders in Brazil in 1997 and played a key role in establishing the Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine (BIPMed) and LatinGen. She has published over 290 peer-reviewed papers with more than 18,000 citations and an h-index of 61. She has supervised numerous graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduates. Her contributions have been recognized with election to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), as well as the Ester Sabino Award for Women Scientists. She also serves as an attending physician at the UNICAMP University Hospital.