Academic Affiliations
- Assistant Professor (Research) – Maternal-Fetal Immunobiology Unit, Wayne State University, Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD/NIH
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Education
- M.D. – Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile (2015)
- Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (2019)
- Postdoctoral Fellow – Maternal-Fetal Immunobiology Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Awards and Recognitions
- 1st place (Oral Presentation) – 36th Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vina del Mar, Chile (2017)
Research Interests
- Investigating the maternal-fetal immunobiology of the great obstetrical syndromes with an emphasis in preterm birth
- Cervico-vaginal microbiome interactions during term and preterm labor
- Mechanisms of intra-amniotic inflammation-induced preterm birth and treatment
Select Publications
- Galaz J, Romero R, Arenas-Hernandez M, Panaitescu B, Para R, Gomez-Lopez N. Betamethasone as a potential treatment for preterm birth associated with sterile intra-amniotic inflammation: a murine study. J Perinat Med. 2021. PMID: 33878254
- Galaz J, Romero R, Arenas-Hernandez M, Panaitescu B, Garcia-Flores V, Gomez-Lopez N. A Protocol for Evaluating Vital Signs and Maternal-Fetal Parameters Using High-Resolution Ultrasound in Pregnant Mice. STAR Protocols. 2020 Oct 22;1(3):100134. PMID: 33377028
- Galaz J, Romero R, Xu Y, Miller D, Levenson D, Para R, Varrey A, Hsu R, Tong A, Hassan SS, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N. Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with a sonographic short cervix. J Perinat Med. 2020 Sep 25;48(7):665-676. PMID: 32716907
- Galaz J, Romero R, Slutsky R, Xu Y, Motomura K, Para R, Pacora P, Panaitescu B, Hsu CD, Kacerovsky M, Gomez-Lopez N. Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes. J Perinat Med. 2020 Mar 26;48(3):222-233. PMID: 32083453
- Galaz J, Romero R, Xu Y, Miller D, Slutsky R, Levenson D, Hsu CD, Gomez-Lopez N. Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with preterm clinical chorioamnionitis. Inflamm Res. 2020 Feb;69(2):203-216. PMID: 31912179
- Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Galaz J, Xu Y, Panaitescu B, Slutsky R, Motomura K, Gill N, Para R, Pacora P, Jung E, Hsu CD. Cellular immune responses in amniotic fluid of women with preterm labor and intra-amniotic infection or intra-amniotic inflammation. Am J Reprod Immunol. 2019 Nov;82(5):e13171. doi: 10.1111/aji.13171. PMID: 31323170
- Theis KR, Florova V, Romero R, Borisov AB, Winters AD, Galaz J, Gomez-Lopez N. Sneathia: an emerging pathogen in female reproductive disease and adverse perinatal outcomes. Crit Rev Microbiol. 2021. PMID: 33823747
- Florova V, Romero R, Tarca AL, Galaz J, Motomura K, Ahmad MM, Hsu CD, Hsu R, Tong A, Ravel J, Theis KR, Gomez-Lopez N. Vaginal host immune-microbiome interactions in a cohort of primarily African-American women who ultimately underwent spontaneous preterm birth or delivered at term. Cytokine. 2020 Oct 5;137:155316. PMID: 33032107