Matthew Marton's Biography

Matthew Marton, Director, Merck Research Laboratories

Matthew Marton is Director of Clinical Genomics in Merck & Co.’s Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnostics department, where his team has deployed predictive biomarkers as patient enrichment assays on multiple technology platforms in over a dozen Merck clinical studies. His current work focuses on the CoDx strategy of novel genomic assays as molecular diagnostics, and he is a contributor to several CLSI documents involving molecular diagnostic testing in oncology. Prior work at Merck focused on technology/method development and biomarker discovery, with an emphasis on quality control of molecular profiling assays. Earlier in his career, Dr. Marton worked with Drs. Stephen Friend and Lee Hartwell at the Seattle Project, a drug discovery think tank, which led to the founding of Rosetta Inpharmatics, a biotechnology company that was acquired by Merck in 2001. At Rosetta and subsequently at Merck, he led scientific efforts to create a GLP-like high throughput functional genomics laboratory. Dr. Marton completed post-doctoral training at the NIH and holds a PhD from Princeton University and a Certificate in Biomedical Regulatory Affairs from the University of Washington.