Dr Alfredo Martinez-coll

Biography

Dr Alfredo Martinez-Coll Alfredo graduated with a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering (minor in artificial organ design) in 1986 from Louisiana Tech University (USA). He has more than 16 years experience in biomedical research in Venezuela, the United States and Australia covering design of artificial organs, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physiology, membrane transport and oxygen transport to tissue.  In 1995 Alfredo moved to Australia and joined the Cooperative Research Centre for Cardiac Technology (CRC-CT); obtaining his Doctorate from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1999 and completing his post-doctoral training with the Faculty of Engineering in 2003.  Alfredo has worked in the area of intellectual property and commercialisation of technology across a number of Area Health Services and academia for the last 7 years. In 2006 he joined NewSouth Innovations Pty Ltd- NSi (the commercialisation company of UNSW) where he is currently Senior Business Development Manager looking after the life sciences and medicine. In 2008 and 2010 he was involved in significant equity transactions for investments into two NSi spin-off companies. Alfredo has been a member for the NSW Branch of the AusMedtech since 2008. His main areas of interest are sustainable funding for science, entrepreneurship, innovation, project management in science and business development -all part of a number of submissions to the State and Commonwealth governments. Stephen has a Bachelor of Business in Accountancy, Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Research Interest

Pharma, Clinical research, Pharmaceutical sciences