Dr. Sabrina D. Da Silva, MSc, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery at McGill University and project director at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research—Segmental Cancer Center. She obtained her DDS degree from the University of Sao Paulo State, Brazil, and her MSc and PhD in Pathology and Molecular Biology at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil). She carried out her postdoctoral training in genetics/genomics in oncology under the supervision of Dr. Luiz Paulo Kowalski, a renowned expert at AC Camargo Cancer Center, gaining vast experience in the field. In 2010, she joined the ENT Department at the Jewish General Hospital, where she continued her research focus on improving outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer through optimized detection and use of personalized targeted therapeutics. She pursued complementary training in experimental medicine.  In 2014, she became an assistant professor in the department, where she is now leading basic and translational research with a primary goal to improve prevention, early tumor detection, and discover alternative therapeutic approaches for patients with advanced disease.