Prof Marcelo Figueredo BDS (Griffith); PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Marcelo Figueredo is a Professor of Periodontology at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at Griffith University (Australia) and is an affiliated researcher at the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). He earned his PhD in Periodontology and Clinical Chemistry from the Karolinska Institutet in 1999, with a thesis on “Hyperreactive neutrophils: A mechanism of tissue destruction in periodontitis.” Since then, his research has focused on the systemic effects of periodontal disease and biological complications of osseointegrated implants
