Dr. Monteiro is a Senior Member in the Population Sciences Division at the Moffitt Cancer Center and a Professor in the Department of Oncologic Sciences at the USF College of Medicine. He is the Scientific Director of the Molecular Genomics Shared Facility and directs the Laboratory of Cancer Genetics & Genomics. He did postdoctoral work in molecular biology at the Rockefeller University. Before moving to Moffitt, he was Assistant Professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, in New York City. The main theme of his laboratory is the integration of systems biology and genetics to explore the role of genetic variation in cancer predisposition, development, and treatment. The lab aims to understand how rare and common genetic variation impacts on signal transduction networks and its role in disease with a focus on breast cancer. The laboratory has pioneered functional assays for 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. The laboratory also has an interest in common genetic variation in cancer susceptibility loci and has played an active role in the NIH/NCI GAME-ON (Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology) consortium as a member of its Functional Working group. Dr. Monteiro participates in training of molecular epidemiologists specializing in cancer since 2014 as a faculty member in the AACR Workshop on Integrative Molecular Epidemiology.