Our Team

  Luís Fernando de Barros Correia is a Internal Medicine Doctor, Intensive Care Doctor and Health Correspondent at CBN Rádio Brasil, GloboTV International, GloboSports and GloboNews Cable TV Network. Experienced Health Correspondent with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in Crisis Communications, Event Management, Editing, Public Speaking, and Journalism. Physician with M.B.A in Healthcare Management from Ibmec Business School. Large experience with Sports Events Medical Preparedness worked at Pan-American Games (2007), Summer Olympics Games Beijing 2008, Chief Medical Officer FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014.  

   Dr. Chen is Director Of Bioinformatics at Certis Oncology Solutions, Inc. A motivated Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with more than ten years of experience in the biotechnology industry, with a focus on oncology for the past four years. Led initiatives in data mining and data analysis to provide versatile bioinformatics support to multiple therapeutic teams. Expertise in NGS data analysis in generating predictive molecular and disease hypotheses in patient selection. Highly dependable in delivering project reports under aggressive timelines. Extremely self-motivated, responsible, and works well in a multi-disciplinary environment with excellent communication skills. 

  Fabio Ynoe de Moraes is an Assistant Professor and clinical faculty in Radiation-Oncology at the Queen’s University and Kingston Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Moraes is a Brazilian graduated and trained Radiation Oncologist who moved to Canada in 2016 for a 3 years fellowship at the University of Toronto (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre). During his career, he performed high level clinical and research activities at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre (NY USA). Dr. Moraes has more than 58 published peer-reviewed articles, including high impact journals such as Lancet Oncology, Nature Biotechnology, New England Journal of Medicine among others. He has been awarded multiple distinctions including being a young leader of the National Academy of Medicine of Brazil and also a young leader of the Union of International Cancer Control. Dr. Moraes is an associate editor for the Journal of Oncology Practice (ASCO) and a clinical advisor for the Cochrane Collaboration (UK). Finally, he joins the Dimensions Science team as co-chair of the Scientific Committee with the meaningful mission of promoting high-level research, innovation and education to the future wave of Brazilian healthcare students.

 Dr. Menck earned his B.Sc. in Biological Sciences at the Institute of  Biosciences of the University of Sao Paulo (IBUSP) in 1977 and his Ph.D.  in Biochemistry at the Chemistry Institute of USP (1982). He worked as  Assistant Professor at the Biology Institute of UERJ from 1982 to 1985,  before proceeding to do postdoctoral work at the Laboratory of Genomic  Instability, under Dr. Alain Sarasin, at the Institute for Cancer  Research (CNRS, Villejuif, France). Upon returning to Brazil in 1986, he  joined the Biology Department of IBUSP. In 1996 he became full  Professor of the Department of Microbiology of Institute of Biomedical  Sciences, USP, where he teaches and conducts research.
He was elected  titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2005 and in 2007  became “Member of the National Order of Scientific Merit”. His main  research interests are molecular DNA repair mechanisms and mutagenesis.  He has published 137 research papers, 24 book chapters and also essays.  At the Human Genome Center he collaborates in research projects  involving DNA repair and ageing diseases, besides contributing his  knowledge of virus-derived genetic vectors. 

 Biologist with a master's degree from the Department of Polymer Technology (2010-12) at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at UNICAMP and a PhD from the Department of Materials and Bioprocess Engineering / DEMBio at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at UNICAMP (2012-16). With research in the field of tissue engineering and biofabrication, he works in the field of regenerative medicine. He performed sandwich periods at The Electrospinning Company at Nottingham Trent University in England and at Cornell University in the United States. With experience in the industry, she is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at USP / São Paulo in collaboration with the company Natura Cosméticos. She is co-founder of the startup 3DBS - 3D Biotechnology Solutions, specialized in the development and customization of 3D bioprinters, electrospinning equipment and solutions in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. 

Graduated from Educational Foundation of Serra dos Orgaos Medical School, Brazil (1994). Medical residency in General Surgery, State University of Rio de Janeiro (1997). Postgraduate studies in Hospital Administration (1999). MBA in Management Health Systems at IBMEC Business School, RJ, with extension at

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, USA (2000). MBA Marketing at Pontifical Catholic University, RJ (2002). He is currently a researcher at the Health Technology Assessment Institute (IATS) CNPq / Brasil, researcher and Director at the Latin American Center Research Institute (CLAPBio), direct consultant to the Ministries of Health in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia for the incorporation of new technologies in Cheers. Member of the Scientific Council of Biored Brasil, member Expert Commitee in Latin America, from IAPO (International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations).

  After graduating with degrees in pharmacy and medicine, Dr. Caleffi completed her residency in gynecology and obstetrics in 1983. Afterwards, she specialized in breast care at the Imperial Cancer Research, Guy’s Hospital of London. At the University of London, she earned her doctorate in cancer biochemistry. She then undertook postdoctoral studies in molecular biology in the field of genetics and breast cancer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She served as a Board member of the Union of International Cancer Control (UICC) from 2012 to 2018. Dr. Caleffi is the Chief of the Breast Center at Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, Brazil and was the Chair of the Executive Committee of the City Cancer Challenge in Porto Alegre. She is the founder and President of the Federação Brasileira de Instituições Filantrópicas de Apoio à Saúde da Mama (Brazilian Federation of Philanthropic Institutions for the Breast Health Support, or FEMAMA). Presently, she develops academic, research, teaching and patient-care activities with a highly multi-professional team. 

 Graduated in Biological Sciences at Centro de Altos Estudios En Ciencias Exáctas, Buenos Aires Argentina (1991), Master in Agronomy (Genetics and Plant Breeding) from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1996), PhD in Genetics from Universidade Federal do Paraná (2001) and post-doctorate (CNPq) developed at Embrapa soybean (2005). She worked as a protein annotator in the UniProt / Swiss-Prot database from 2005 to 2007. Since May 2009 she has been an Associate Researcher at the Bioinformatics Laboratory (Labinfo) at LNCC / MCTIC and Permanent Professor of the Postgraduate Course in Computational Modeling at this institution. Since March 2019, she has been a Permanent Professor at the new Postgraduate course in Nanobiosystems at URFJ. CNPq Level 2 Research Productivity Scholar in the Genetics Area. Has experience in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Genomics and Bioinformatics. She mainly works in Bioinformatics applied to the analysis of genomes and transcriptomes and metabolic and regulatory networks in bacteria, in particular clinical pathogens.