Positions and Honors
– Substitute Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Maternal and Child Health at the Institute of Childcare and Pediatrics Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), since 2018
– PhD degree in Medicine from UFRJ (2004-2006), with a “sandwich” doctorate at the Cancer Research Center of the University of Salamanca, Spain, under the supervision of Professor Alberto Orfao, and a CAPES scholarship.
– Medical residency in Pediatrics (1999) and specialization in Pediatric Hematology (2000) at IPPMG- UFRJ
– Degree in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1996)
– Visiting researcher at the University of Salamanca since 2006.
– Member of the European Flow Cytometry Consortium – EuroFlow, leading the study of pediatric solid tumors together with the UFRJ team.
– Pediatric oncohematologist at the Institute of Pediatrics and Childcare Martagão Gesteira – IPPMG/UFRJ (2003-2011)
– Adjunct Professor at the Department of Pediatrics at UFRJ (since 2011)
– Permanent Professor of the Internal Medicine and Maternal and Child Health Postgraduate Programs at UFRJ
– Coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Health Research Center at UFRJ.
– Level 2 researcher at CNPq and scientist from FAPERJ.
Main research areas
- Pediatric oncohematology
- New analysis methods for diagnosing and monitoring malignant neoplasms using flow cytometry
Main publications
1. OLIVEIRA, ELEN ; Costa, Elaine S. ; CIUDAD, JUANA ; GAIPA, GIUSEPPE ; SEDEK, ‘UKASZ ; Barrena, Susana ; SZCZEPANSKI, TOMASZ ; BURACCHI, CHIARA ; SILVESTRI, DANIELA ; SIQUEIRA, PATRÍCIA F. R. ; MELLO, FABIANA V. ; TORRES, RAFAEL C. ; OLIVEIRA, LEONARDO M. R. ; FAY-NEVES, ISABELLE V. C. ; SONNEVELD, EDWIN ; VAN DER VELDEN, VINCENT H. J. ; MEJSTRIKOVA, ESTHER ; RIBERA, JOSEP-MARIA ; CONTER, VALENTINO ; SCHRAPPE, MARTIN ; van Dongen, Jacques J. M. ; LAND, MARCELO G. P. ; ORFAO, Alberto . Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Regeneration Profile in Treated B-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patients: Association with MRD Status and Patient Outcome. Cancers, v. 14, p. 3088, 2022.
2. FERREIRA-FACIO, CRISTIANE DE SÁ ; BOTAFOGO, VITOR ; FERRÃO, PATRÍCIA MELLO ; CANELLAS, MARIA CLARA ; MILITO, CRISTIANE B.; ROMANO, SÉRGIO ; LOPES, DAIANA V. ; TEIXEIRA, LISANDRA C. ; OLIVEIRA, ELEN ; BRUNO-RISCAROLLI, ENRICO ; MELLO, FABIANA V. ; SIQUEIRA, PATRÍCIA F. R. ; MOURA, PATRÍCIA ; MACEDO, FRANCISCO NICANOR; FORNY, DANIELLE N. ; SIMIÃO, LUÍZA ; PUREZA, ANA LUÍZA ; LAND, MARCELO GERARDIN POIROT ; PEDREIRA, Carlos Eduardo ; DONGEN, JACQUES J. M. VAN ; ORFAO, Alberto ; COSTA, ELAINE SOBRAL DA . Flow Cytometry Immunophenotyping for Diagnostic Orientation and Classification of Pediatric Cancer Based on the EuroFlow Solid Tumor Orientation Tube (STOT). Cancers, v. 13, p. 4945, 2021
3. VERBEEK, MARTIJN W. C. ; BURACCHI, CHIARA ; LAQUA, ANNA ; NIERKENS, STEFAN ; SEDEK, LUKASZ ; FLORES’MONTERO, JUAN ; HOFMANS, MATTIAS; SOBRAL DE COSTA, ELAINE ; NOVÁKOVÁ, MICHAELA ; MEJSTRIKOVA, ESTER ; Barrena, Susana ; KOHLSCHEEN, SASKIA ; SZCZEPANOWSKI, MONIKA ; KULIS, JAN ; OLIVEIRA, ELEN ; JUGOOA, ROMANA ; JONG, ANJA X. ; SZCZEPANSKI, TOMASZ ; PHILIPPÉ, JAN ; DONGEN, JACQUES J. M. ; ORFAO, Alberto ; BRÜGGEMANN, MONIKA ; GAIPA, GIUSEPPE ; VELDEN, VINCENT H. J. . Flow cytometric minimal residual disease assessment in B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia patients treated with CD19-targeted therapies – a EuroFlow study. BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY, v. 1, p. 1, 2021.
4. Mello, F. V. ; Land, Marcelo G. ; Teodosio C. ; Bárcena, P. ; Sánchez, Maria Luz ; PERES, R. T. ; Pedreira CE ; COSTA, E. S. ; Orfao, A. . Maturation-associated gene expression profiles along normal human bone marrow monopoiesis. British Journal of Haematology (Print), p. 464-474, 2017.
5. OLIVEIRA, ELEN ; BACELAR, THIAGO S. ; CIUDAD, JUANA ; RIBEIRO, MARIA CECÍLIA M. ; GARCIA, DANIELA R.N. ; SEDEK, LUKASZ ; MAIA, SIMONE F. ; ARANHA, DANIEL B. ; MACHADO, INDYARA C. ; IKEDA, ARISSA ; BAGLIOLI, BIANCA F. ; LOPEZ’DUARTE, NATHALIA ; TEIXEIRA, LISANDRA A. C. ; SZCZEPANSKI, TOMASZ ; SILVA, MARIA LUIZA M.; Land, Marcelo G.P. ; ORFAO, Alberto; Costa, Elaine S. Altered neutrophil immunophenotypes in childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Oncotarget, v. 7, p. 24664-24676, 2016.