Edward J. Filardo
Brown University School of Medicine, USA
Biography
Dr. Filardo is the Director of Research & Development at Radix BioSolutions, Ltd.. Previously, he served as faculty at the Brown University Medical School where his research group discovered the newly appreciated plasma membrane estrogen receptor, GPER-1. Studies by his group, revealed its molecular mechanism of action and desensitization. Moreover, their published works indicate that GPER-1 plays a homeostatic role in neural and renal tissue and its expression is positively associated with advanced breast cancer.