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Inventors - Roland Valdes, Jr., Ph.D.
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Roland Valdes, Jr., Ph.D., PGxl Laboratories
Roland Valdes, Ph.D. is founder and CEO of PGxl Laboratories and professor and senior vice-chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Louisville. He is also professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and holds the appointment of UofL Distinguished University Scholar.
Dr. Valdes serves as director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology and as director of a postdoctoral fellowship program in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine in the Department of Pathology.
Dr. Valdes received his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia in molecular biophysics after completing postdoctoral fellowships in biochemistry and clinical chemistry at the University of Virginia. He joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine before relocating to University of Louisville.
He is a Fellow and past-president of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and past-president of the Clinical Ligand Assay Society. His scientific interests involve discovery and characterization of the mammalian cardenolides and their pathophysiologic role in cardiovascular disease.
He also holds several Distinguished Scientist Awards, has authored over 230 publications in the scientific literature, and has mentored to date more than 25 trainees in laboratory medicine and research during his career.
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