Alvaro N.A. Monteiro, PhD

As the Associate Center Director of Shared Resources Management, Dr. Alvaro N.A. Monteiro oversees the portfolio of current and developmental Shared Resource (Core) laboratories/facilities to support exceptional science by Moffitt faculty members. In this role, he provides strategic vision, direction and monitoring of activities.

Dr. Monteiro’s academic training includes a bachelor’s degree in Genetics and a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He did postdoctoral work in molecular oncology at the Rockefeller University. Before moving to Moffitt in 2003, he was an Assistant Professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.

He is a Moffitt Distinguished Scholar and a Senior Member in the Population Sciences Division at Moffitt and a Professor in the Department of Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida. Dr. Monteiro is a member of the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Counselors. He is a member of the American Association of Cancer Research and participates in the training of molecular epidemiologists specializing in cancer since 2014 as a faculty member in the AACR Workshop on Integrative Molecular Epidemiology.

His research aims to understand how rare and common genetic variation impacts cancer risk and rewires signal transduction networks. His laboratory pioneered functional assays for the major breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 and contributed to the development of tools for clinical annotation of rare variants in BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2 and CHEK2 in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome.