Cancer Science & Therapy

Fabricio F Costa

Fabricio F Costa, PhD
Northwestern University, Cancer Biology and Epigenomics Program, USA

Biography

Fabricio F Costa has obtained his PhD in the worldwide renowned Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. He has completed his training for two years at the Massachusetts General Hospital, affiliated with Harvard University in Boston,MA. He works now as a research scientist at Children’s Memorial Research Center and Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in the cancer research, genomics and epigenomics fields and has worked as a consultant for newspapers in the biotech sector. He has also given interviews to the scientific journal ""Nature Biotechnology"" and to the british magazine ""The Economist"" about his work. Dr Costa was also a reviewer for ~30 articles from different journals, currently work as a consultant for two research groups in Brazil in the epigenetics field (one in Sao Paulo and the other in Curitiba) and has also evaluated projects for the “Bando Giovani” or “Young Investigator Award” promoted by the Italian Ministry of Health in Italy and for the “Cancer Research UK” Funding Agency in England. Dr Costa’s work was recently featured in the cover of the Bioessays journal in a review article that discusses the emergence of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) as important players in the epigenomics field.

Research Interest

Oncology/Cancer,  Neurology/Molecular, Neurogenetics and Cancer biology.