Filipe Santos Silva has a Ph.D. in Human Biology and a Masters's in Oncobiology. Leads the Public Awareness of Cancer Unit at IPATIMUP and is a team member of the Communication Unit at I3S. Academic affiliations include the Faculty of Medicine - University of Porto and the Buffett Cancer Center - University of Nebraska. Consultant of innovation units and member of national and international review boards. He has 47 publications in indexed international journals with 1,373 citations by other authors (h-index 19). He coordinated several projects in the area of basic cancer research (mucins and oncogenesis) and currently focuses its activity on projects of cancer prevention education funded by national and international agencies.