Leileata Russo's Biography

Leileata Russo, Research Professor, Mass General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School

Leileata M. Russo, PhD., currently heads the Exosome Biology Lab within the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Nephrology’s Program in Membrane Biology. In addition Dr. Russo is involved in various entrepreneurial activities aimed at enabling translation of research from ‘bench to bedside’. Dr. Russo received her PhD from the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University Victoria, Australia in 2003. She was promoted to Junior Faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 2007 and left in 2010 to join Exosome Diagnostic as Director of Research and scientific co-founder. Her academic and industry research has focused on developing a diagnostic platform for urinary exosomes.