Professor and Distinguished University Scholar
Senior Vice-Chairman
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Tel: (502) 852-1772
Email: roland.valdes@pgxlab.com
Dr. Valdes is a 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 Distinguished University Scholar. Dr. Valdes serves as Director of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology and as Director of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine in the Department of Pathology. As Director of PGXL Laboratories he is responsible for all operations of the laboratory.
Dr. Valdes received his PhD in Molecular Biophysics at the University of Virginia (1976), after completing postdoctoral fellowships in Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, also at the University of Virginia. He joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine before relocating to the University of Louisville.
His scientific interests involve the discovery and characterization of the mammalian cardenolides and their pathophysiologic role in cardiovascular disease. Most recently, Dr. Valdes is working to bring the science of both pharmacogenetics and proteomics into clinical laboratory practice.
He is a Fellow and past-President of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, and past-President of the Clinical Ligand Assay Society. 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.