Dr. Marios has twenty-six years post-doctoral experience & expertise in Genetics, Genomics, DNA Diagnostics & Biotechnology. His expertise is in both scientific planning & business development, including global alliances, venture capital recruiting and private investment fund raising.
American Board of Medical Genetics: Dual certification: Clinical Molecular Genetics & PhD Medical Genetics [Certification #: 96091] Post-Doctoral fellowships: Clinical Molecular Genetics & Clinical Genetics, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA PhD: Medical & Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana USA
BSc: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
DNA Diagnostics: Dr. Marios established and directed the Molecular Genetics & DNA Diagnostics laboratory at King Faisal Hospital & Research Center (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Geno-Type Biotechnology (Athens, Greece) and Gonidio International (Møgeltønder-Tønder, Denmark). These institutions were dedicated to performing and interpreting DNA diagnostic testing, Predictive Genomics testing, as well as assessing and signing clinical and prenatal cases for inherited diseases.
Clinical Genetics: Dr. Marios has extensive experience, examining, diagnosing, risk assessing, counselling and managing patients with a multitude of genetic disorders, congenital malformations, dysmorphia & mental retardation in genetics clinics. He has also worked on in-patient consultations, field clinics, growth clinics (skeletal dysplasias & growth abnormalities) and neurology clinics (neurogenetic disorders) at Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI, USA), Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit, MI, USA) and Riley Hospital for Children (Indianapolis, IN, USA).
Further work in risk assessing and genetic counselling for high-risk pregnancy patients (maternal age, family history of genetic disorders, teratogenic exposures, abnormal MSAFP, etc.) in Prenatal Diagnosis clinics at Indiana University and Wishard Memorial Hospitals (Indianapolis, IN, USA).