Carmen Silvia Passos Lima graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (1983). She completed her medical residency in Hematology and Hemotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (1985). She has a PhD in Internal Medicine from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the State University of Campinas (1993). She has a post-doctorate in Conventional and Molecular Cytogenetics from the Academic Hematology and Cytogenetics Department of the Royal Marsden Hospital of the Institute of Cancer Research of the University of London (1997). She holds the title of specialist in Hematology and Hemotherapy by the Brazilian Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy (2007). She is a Full Professor of Oncology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the State University of Campinas (2017) and holds the title of specialist in Clinical Oncology by the Brazilian Society of Clinical Oncology (2018). The identification of genetic abnormalities in tumors constitutes the main line of investigation in her research. She is responsible for the Laboratory of Cancer Genetics at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the State University of Campinas (www.fcm.unicamp.br/fcm/laboratorio-de-genetica-do-cancer-lageca).