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Professor and Distinguished University
Scholar
Senior Vice-Chairman
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine
Tel: (502) 852-1772
Email: rvaldes@louisville.edu
Dr. Valdes is Professor and Senior Vice-Chairman of the
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is also
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and holds
the appointment of Distinguished University Scholar at the
University of Louisville. 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 PhD at the University of Virginia
in Molecular Biophysics (1976) 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. Most recently,
Dr. Valdes is working on transitioning the science of both
pharmacogenetics (PGx) and proteomics into clinical laboratory
practice.
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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