Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike Folgueira

Maria Aparecida Azevedo Koike Folgueira received the degree in medicine and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in oncology from the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil, in 1983, 1993, and 1997, respectively. She did her residency at the Hospital das Clinicas da FMUSP, the largest medical care complex in Latin America, completing her training in internal medicine (three years) and hematology (two years). She was a Preceptor of medical residents and interns for two years. She was an Attending Physician with the Hospital Universitario da Universidade de São Paulo and the Hospital das Clinicas da FMUSP, until 1998. Afterwards, she was an Assistant Professor and has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Radiology and Oncology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, since 2003. Her research group has been studying the development of cancer, mainly breast cancer, including “Predictive markers of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer;” “Germline and somatic variants associated with the development of cancer;” “Vitamin D effects in breast cancer;” and “Fibroblasts and malignant cells interaction in breast cancer.” She has authored three books, 66 manuscripts, and 22 book chapters. She is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.