Mila Pontremoli Salcedo is a Senior Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on cervical cancer prevention, gynecologic oncology, and global health, with specific interests in HPV screening technologies, point-of-care diagnostics, and cancer care delivery in low-resource settings. Her recent work includes developing extraction-free loop-mediated isothermal amplification and RT-RPA assays for HPV detection, evaluating thermal ablation versus LEEP in women living with HIV in Mozambique, and assessing barriers to HPV self-collection among unhoused individuals in Texas. She has published in Nature Communications, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and JCO Global Oncology, and leads international training programs to improve gynecologic oncology outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.
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