Berenice Bilharinho de Mendonça

She holds a medical degree from the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (1973), and a master's degree (1981) and a doctorate (1984) in Endocrinology and Metabology from USP. Full Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine of the School of Medicine (FM-USP). Mendonça is a clinical researcher in the area of developmental endocrinology, covering a clinical and molecular study of the disorders of sexual determination and differentiation, growth and puberty, and in the area of adrenal hypo- and hyperfunction with focus on steroidogenesis and tumorigenism. She is responsible for the structuring and development of the Laboratory of Hormones and Molecular Genetics, and is a researcher supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She has published more than 394 papers in national and international journals.