Professor of Neurology at the University of Sao Paulo (2001). PhD in Neurology from the University of Sao Paulo (1997). Graduated in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo (1979). She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Head of the Neuro-oncology Group and Head of the Myopathies Group of the Neurology Department at the USP Medical School.