RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Sidnei Epelman, M.D.

Dr. Sidnei Epelman

Director, Pediatric Oncology Department, Santa Marcelina Hospital

Founder and President, TUCCA Association for Children and Adolescents with Cancer http://www.tucca.org.br/

President, INCTR Brasil http://www.inctr.org/

• Where are you from?/Where did you study?

Brazil, São Paulo

•  What are you researching right now?

Improving cure rates in children with cancer in Brazil

• Who is your all-time favorite scientist and why?

Sigmund Freud. He explored the human mind more thoroughly than any other who became before him.

• What do you like to do in your spare time?

Go to  the beach and Stand up paddle boarding

• Favorite food?

Chocolate

• Why science?

Deal with people.

• Who/What has inspired you to work on DIPG?

It is a constant challenge.

• What are you reading right now?

Jews and Words (Amós Oz)

• If you could give one piece of advice to someone considering a research career, what would it be?

To be persistent