Isaac Garcia-Murillas's Biography

Isaac Garcia-Murillas, Senior Scientific Officer, Institute Of Cancer Research

Isaac Garcia-Murillas read Genetics and Immunology at the University of Aberdeen as an undergraduate student before undertaking his PhD at The University of Cambridge

Dr Garcia-Murillas Joined Nick Turner's Molecular Oncology group at the ICR in 2010, initially to work on G Protein-Coupled receptors in breast cancer. Since 2010, Dr Garcia-Murillas has increasingly focused on translational research in breast cancer. He has led and developed work on the use of novel approaches, including Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and digital PCR (dPCR) to study circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) from "liquid biopsies". Currently his research interests focus in the detection and tracking of structural variants, Including gene amplifications and deletions, and mutations, primarily in breast cancer, but also in lung and Head and Neck cancers. To date, he continues to work on investigating how ctDNA can be best exploited as a potential biomarker for relapse and prediction of response to targeted treatment in breast cancer.