Affiliates

George Gabor Miklos

George L Gabor Miklos
PhD
Director of Secure Genetics

Secure Genetics draws upon the expertise of its international affiliates who are specialists in the fields of

  • medicine,
  • biotechnology,
  • cancer
  • bioinformatics
  • brain research,
  • information technology

Philip Baird

Phillip J Baird
MB BS PhD MHL Grad.Dipl.HML FRCPA FIAC FCLM

Principal pathologist and CEO of Integrated Diagnostic Pathology, Sydney, Australia.

Clinical training in internal medicine and pathology; leading researcher into the aetiology and pathology of gynaecological cancers; pioneer in the introduction of Liquid Based Cytology cervical samples; advisor to the Office of the Australian Prime Minister on cancer screening technologies.

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David Tarin
MD PhD

Professor of Pathology Moores/UCSD Comprehensive Cancer Center, La Jolla, California and previously Director of the Cancer Center.

Earlier appointments: Professor of Pathology, Oxford University UK and Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.

Clinical specialty: Diagnostic surgical histopathology and autopsy pathology with special reference to breast, lung, cardiovascular system and cancer of all organs. Participation in multidiscpinary clinico-pathological meetings involved in patient care.

Research interests: Pathogenesis of cancer and mechanisms of cancer metastasis. Special focus on interactions between normal and neoplastic cells and molecules involved.

Gary Schwartz

Gary Schwartz
MD

Rochester,
Minnesota USA
Mayo Clinic,

Head of the hypertension clinic at the Mayo Clinic; expertise in accurately diagnosing and treating hypertension and in the genetics of a patients response to blood pressure lowering medications.

Rafael Fonseca

Rafael Fonseca
MD

Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Site Director
Hematological Malignancies
Mayo Clinic

Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology. World expert in the clinical, biological and prognostic implications of specific chromosomal and genetic abnormalities for patients with myeloma.

Ole Faergeman

Ole Faergeman
MD DMSc

Aarhus Amtssygehus
University Hospital, Denmark

Professor of Preventative Cardiology. Development of biochemical and imaging methodology for the detection of cardiovascular disease. Implementation into the Healthcare system of lifestyle and pharmacological strategies for preventing cardiovascular disease.

Chiara Cirelli
MD PhD

Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin.

World expert in; the electrophysiology and molecular biology of sleep and sleep deprivation; gene expression in brains of patients with fatal familial insomnia and with spongiform degeneration; molecular genetics of sleep in model organisms.

Giulio Tononi

Giulio Tononi
MD PhD

Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Professor of Psychiatry

Specialized in psychiatry at the University of Pisa, Italy; world expert in neuroimaging and transcranial stimulation technologies examining information integration in schizophrenia and dissociative syndromes; and in consciousness, complexity, sleep and computer modelling of brain integration.

Stephen May

Stephen May
MB BS

Coffs Harbour Medical Centre
Australia

Extensive experience in the Australian Healthcare system. He holds appointments as a GP (Family Physician), GP (Obstetrician) and GP (Anaesthetist) at the Coffs Harbour Public Health Campus and the Baringa Private Hospital.

Alberto Ferrus

Alberto Ferrus
PhD

Madrid, Spain
Co-Director of the Instituto Cajal

Internationally respected expert in the neurogenetics, electrophysiology and development of the brains of model organisms, with special skills in genomic manipulation, in brain wiring phenomena and in phenotypic disturbances and their underlying mechanisms.

Andrzej Drukier

Andrzej Drukier
PhD

Herndon, Virginia, USA
President and CEO of BioTraces Inc.

PhD in physics from the Niels Bohr Institute and the University of Copenhagen; inventor of Multi Photon Detection systems in ultra sensitive biomedical instrumentation for the diagnostics of infectious agents, such as the HIV virus.