Stephen Tong ESA-SRB Conference 2015

Stephen Tong

Professor Stephen Tong is a clinician-scientist (specialist obstetrician) at The Mercy Hospital for Women and The University of Melbourne in Australia. He is focussed on translational research. His team has taken 5-6 laboratory concepts to international clinical trials running in United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand and across Australia. Working with senior researchers, he has led a translational pipeline to identify new drugs to treat preeclampsia. The pipeline begins with laboratory evaluation to discover promising candidates to treat preeclampsia. It extends to successive randomised placebo controlled clinical trials running in South Africa (where the most promising drugs found in the laboratory are evaluated). Prof Tong’s also co-leads research programs to develop diagnostics to prevent stillbirth, new treatments for ectopic pregnancy and epidemiology studies evaluating drug safety. He has published over 190 papers, including contributions over recent years in The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Nature Communication, Human Reproduction Update; and multiple papers in BMC Medicine, Hypertension, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; and others. He has received three national awards from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Over the past decade he and his team has obtained over 8 million dollars in competitive grant funding for research.