Dr. Helena Lobo Borges is an Associate Professor at the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She holds a B.Sc. degree in Biology (Genetics) (1996), a Master’s degree (1998), and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences-Biophysics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2002). She did postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Diego, USA (2002–2005) in cancer biology. She was a visiting professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of UFRJ (2006–2007). She was Coordinator of the symposium core of the Oncobiology program at UFRJ (2007–2009), member of the Ethics Committee on the Use of Animals of the Center for Health Sciences (2013–2017), Coordinator of Biosafety of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (2015–2019), and associate editor of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2017–2020). She has experience in the area of morphology, with an emphasis on cytology and cell biology, working mainly on the following topics: tumor suppressors, colorectal cancer, glioblastoma, apoptosis, cell cycle, response to DNA damage, and tumor microenvironment.