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Associate Professor Manuel SALTO-TELLEZ
LMS/MD, FRCPath, MolPath Fellow
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Professor Manuel Salto-Tellez is Visiting Professor at the Department of Pathology and the Cancer Science Institute of the National University of Singapore.
His main appointment is as the Chair of Molecular Pathology at the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology in Queen's University Belfast (UK), and Clinical Consultant Pathologist at the Belfast Healthcare Trust.
He attended Medical School at the Universities of Oviedo (Spain), Aachen (Germany) and Leiden (The Netherlands), partly supported by grants from the European Union. He specialized in Pathology at the University of Edinburgh (UK), receiving his MRCPath in 1998 and FRCPath in 2006. He subspecialized in Gastrointestinal Pathology in St Mark's / Northwick Park Hospital in London (UK, 1998-1999), and in Molecular Pathology / Molecular Diagnosis at UPENN (USA, 2000).
For more than 10 years he worked at the National University Health System and the National University of Singapore, where he held positions of responsibility in the academic and hospital sites. Dr Salto-Tellez is author or co-author of more than 120 internationally peer-reviewed articles, in both basic science and translational/diagnostic journals. Dr Salto-Tellez is regularly invited as a guest-speaker to many national and international conferences. He is author of Ian Talbot, Ashley Price & Manuel Salto-Tellez. Biopsy Pathology in Colorectal Disease, 2Ed, Hodder Arnold, 2006; he has contributed chapters to Gray W and Kocjan G, Diagnostic Cytopathology 3rd edn. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier; 2010, as well as Morson and Dawson's Gastrointestinal Pathology 5th edn., to be published in 2011.
His areas of diagnostic interest are gastrointestinal pathology and molecular diagnosis. His areas of research interest include the discovery and validation of novel molecular biomarkers of disease, the validation and technology transfer of novel discoveries into the molecular diagnostic practice and the molecular pathology of the RUNX family of genes. Dr Salto-Tellez has been the recipient of generous grant funding. His collaborations with the industry are numerous, including the Membership to the Key Opinion Leaders program of Ventana-Roche, and regular advisory role and speaker on industry-led meetings in the area of molecular diagnostics.
As a medical student, Dr Salto-Tellez was awarded the Erasmus Prize of the European Union. More recently, he was awarded the Courage Star in 2003 (Singapore), the 2005 - Eminent Scientist of the Year Award by the International Research Promotion Council (IRPC), and the 2007/2008 NUS School of Medicine Faculty Research Excellence Award.
