Emmanouil Karteris
Dr Emmanouil Karteris is a Reader at Brunel University London, Head of Cancer Biomarkers and Cellular Endocrinology Lab (www.cbcel.org), and Departmental Director International for Life Sciences. He gained his BSc degree in Medical Biochemistry (University of Surrey, UK, 1995), MSc in Medical Genetics with Immunology (Brunel University, UK 1996) and his PhD (Warwick University, UK 2000). Dr Karteris has published 96 research manuscripts (h-index 33, i10-index:67) and presented over 100 abstracts in leading international conferences. He also has expertise IP law and in setting up clinical studies. His lab -in collaboration with oncologists nationwide- primarily works on the clinical utility of liquid biopsies, namely characterization and enumeration of circulating tumour cells, measurements of cfDNA and ctDNA, as well as RNA-sequencing analyses.
I am the Director of the Program for Neurotrauma, Neuroproteomics and Biomarkers Research and tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine, Neuroscience, Physiological Sciences and Chemistry at the University of Florida in USA. I am also Research Health Neuroscientist, and Executive Committee Member of the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center (Gainesville, FL). I have been involved as an a neurotrauma researcher since the late 1990’s. I have served as President and Council Member of the National Neurotrauma society, Board Member, Board of Governors of the International Brain Injury Association and Presidium Member of the Academy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology. I am a co-founder of a biotechnology company Gryphon Bio, Inc. My research focus is translational research for biomarkers and therapies for traumatic brain injury (TBI), spinal cord injury, post-traumatic epilepsy, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Two acute TBI blood-based protein biomarkers (UCH-L1/GFAP) that I co-discovered have received FDA clearance as the first in vitro diagnostic tests for detecting pathoanatomical lesions in TBI patients. I also hold leadership positions on various TBI initiatives such as International TBI Research Initiative (InTBIR), and multicenter TBI consortium studies (e.g. TRACK-TBI, CENTER-TBI, ICON-TBI). I am principle Investigator of multiple research grants funded by National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs and other research foundations. I have also authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and edited /co-edited 5 scientific books.
