Jorge Reis-Filho

Jorge S. Reis-Filho, MD PhD FRCPath holds a joint medical degree from University of Porto, Portugal and Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil. After finishing his histopathology training at the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Portugal, he did his PhD on breast cancer molecular pathology at the Breakthrough Research Centre where he was appointed Team Leader of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory in 2006. In 2007, Dr. Reis-Filho was awarded the CL Oakley Lectureship by the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the BACR Translational Research Award. In 2010, Dr. Reis-Filho was awarded the 2010 Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology and the Future Leaders Prize by Cancer Research UK. Dr. Reis-Filho is the youngest ever Fellow of The Royal College of Pathologists to have become a member by published works. In 2012, he joined the Department of Pathology of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York as an Attending Pathologist. He has published over 400 peer reviewed articles, is an associate editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and the Journal of Pathology, and a senior scientific advisor for Science Translational Medicine.

Dr. Reis-Filho's research program focuses on the development of an integrated morphological and molecular classification for breast cancers by focusing on special histological types and the identification of novel therapeutic targets for specific subgroups of breast cancer patients, through an integrative analysis of data derived from pathology, massively parallel sequencing and functional genomics.