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Dr. Fortunato has been an active clinician scientist since
1986. He took his maternal fetal medicine fellowship at the University of Southwestern Medical School in Dallas
under the tutelage of Drs. Paul McDonald and Norman Gant. Out of approximately 50 publications he has 35 in the
field of prematurity. For the last 9 years our laboratory has been interested in the molecular signaling in preterm
labor and PROM. The laboratory has concentrated its interest in the role of pro- inflammatory and immunomodulatory
cytokines in preterm labor and the role of the matrix metalloproteinases in PROM.
Ramkumar Menon is a graduate in Medical Laboratory Science from the University of Kerala, India and got his clinical
specialization in Medical Laboratory Science from the University of Utah. He joined Dr. Fortunato’s team of scientists
in 1991 at Wright State University (Dayton, OH) and got his Masters degree under his tutelage. This team developed
the first ever organ explant system for amniochorion to study the fetal immune response to an infectious process.
Mr. Menon currently directs day to day laboratory activities at PRC and serves as Research Scientist.
Dr. Fortunato and Mr. Menon have filed a United States Patent Application directed to this technology (Serial No.
09/234,326, entitled METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING PRETERM LABOR AND PREMATURE RUPTURE OF FETAL MEMBRANES,
filed on January 20,1998).
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