Endocrine Abstracts

Paula Soares, BSc, MSc, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biopathology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Porto and coordinates the Group of Cancer Biology at the Institute of Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (Ipatimup) – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Sáude (i3S), Portugal. She received her degrees in Biology, Master in Oncobiology, and PhD in Human Biology at the University of Porto. Her main interests include oncobiology of thyroid and neuroendocrine tumours mainly addressing thyroid cancer genetic alterations and signal transduction molecules involved in the MAPK and mTOR pathways. Paula Soares has a particular interest in the clinical translation of the pathologic meaning of genetic alterations. The metabolic deregulation in cancer is also an interest in her research. Paula Soares team has provided important insights into the genetics of thyroid tumors concerning the discovery of BRAF mutations and of TERT promoter mutations in thyroid cancer. She is also a member of numerous scientific committees and evaluation boards and serves on grant review committees and in journal editorial and review boards.