Rate My Professor Marilene Hohmuth Lopes

Marilene Hohmuth Lopes is an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB) of the Universidade de São Paulo. She graduated in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo in 1999 and earned her doctorate in Oncology from the Fundação Antônio Prudente at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in 2004. She completed postdoctoral training at the same institution from 2005 to 2008 and served as a Young Researcher at the São Paulo branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, she was appointed assistant professor at ICB-USP, where she established the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Stem Cells. She spent a gap year in 2016 at the University of Western Ontario working with Dr. Marco Prado at the Robarts Research Institute. In 2019, she was promoted to associate professor.

Her research focuses on the role of the prion protein and its ligands in the cellular mechanisms governing stem cell biology, with particular emphasis on neural development and glioblastoma. She leads studies investigating molecular determinants in brain tumor evolution, including the functions of proteins such as STIP1 in pluripotency, self-renewal, and tumor progression. Professor Lopes participates in institutional committees at ICB-USP, including the Central de Bioterismo and commissions on fundamental sciences for health and national and international cooperation. Her professional email address is marilenehl@usp.br.