Susana Nunes Silva

Professor Professor Auxiliar Convidado

Principal Investigator

Susana Nunes Silva is a Researcher at NOVA Medical School and assistant Professor at the same Faculty lecturing Genetics. Holds a PhD degree in Life Sciences since 2010. Focuses on studying genetic variants' impact on cancer susceptibility, particularly in breast and thyroid cancers. She has extensive experience in molecular genetics and is currently focusing on investigating RNA transcript profiling in breast cancer cell lines using Nanopore sequencing, and is also involved in a project (as Co-PI) studying the impact of MiRNA profiling in early stage and metastatic uterine carcinosarcoma. She has published 34 scientific papers and 3 book chapters.

Publications

Lourenço RA, Lança M, Monteiro Gil O, Cardoso J, Lourenço T, Pereira‑Leal JB, Rodrigues AS, Rueff J and Nunes Silva S, VUS: A functional analysis to differentiate pathogenic from benign variants identified in clinical diagnostic panels for breast cancer. 2023. Mol Med Rep 28: 136.
Pimenta I, Mateus H, Rodrigues-Manica S, Pinheiro-Torres R, Neto A, Domingues L, Crespo CL, Sardoo A, Machado P, Branco JC, Silva SN, Pimentel-Santos F, The Effect of ACTN3 and VDR polymorphisms on skeletal muscle performance in axial spondyloarthropathies. 2021. Frontiers in Genetics 12.
Silva SN, Gomes BC, André S, Félix A, Rodrigues AS, Rueff J. Male and female breast cancer: the two faces of the same genetic susceptibility coin. 2021. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 188(1):295-305. doi: 10.1007/s10549-021-06159-x.
Silva SN. Special Issue: Genetic Perspectives in Thyroid Cancer. 2021. Genes (Basel). 12(2):126. doi: 10.3390/genes12020126.
Santos LS, Gil OM, Silva SN, Gomes BC, Ferreira TC, Limbert E and Rueff J, Micronuclei formation upon radioiodine therapy for well-differentiated thyroid cancer: The influence of DNA repair genes variants. 2020. Genes. 11, 9, p. 1-24 24 p., 1083.

Location

Susana Nunes Silva

Publications

Links