Dr. Carlos Salomon PhD, DMedSc, MSc
Dr. Salomon´s research line has uncovered the potential use of exosomes as biomarkers for several pathological conditions and therapeutics focused on pregnancies and ovarian cancer. In the last five years, he has made several contributions to our understanding the role of placental exosomes during gestation, and his work demonstrated their nature as specific subcellular compartments and the ability of exosomes to modify the biological function of target cells. Dr. Salomon has published 83 publications, which 58 are in the extracellular vesicles field in the last 5 years. He is a principal investigator on several projects on extracellular vesicles based at the USA (NIH), Australia (NHMRC), U.K (Action Research) and Chile (FONDECYT). In the last five years, he has obtained over 3 million dollars in external funding. Recently. Dr. Salomon has focused on the development of micro-fabricated devices for molecular diagnostics and synthesis, characterization and application of magnetic nanoparticles for their use in the development of multi-marker diagnostics.
Associate Professor Martha Lappas PhD
Associate Professor Lappas is the head of the Obstetrics, Nutrition and Endocrinology Group based at The University of Melbourne located at the Mercy Hospital for Women (Melbourne Australia). A/Professor Lappas have 124 peer reviewed papers published or accepted in the last 5 years. A/Professor Lappas is recognised leader in the field of reproductive biology and, in particular in the inflammatory process associated with preterm birth, gestational diabetes mellitus and maternal obesity in pregnancy. During the last 5 years, Dr. Lappas has held 2 Career Development Awards from NHMRC (concludes mid 2017) and 2 NHMRC Project Grants. She has obtained grant funding of $5.3 M ($3.4 M in last 5 years); Chief/Sole Investigator in grants totalling $3.0 M ($2.3 M in last 5 years).
