Oscar Puig's Biography

Oscar Puig, Biomarker Leader, Hoffmann La Roche

Oscar Puig is a Biomarker and Experimental Medicine Leader in Oncology at the Translational Clinical Research Center, Roche, where he joined in 2012. Prior to that, he was an Associate Director in the department of Informatics and Analysis, Merck Research Labs. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Valencia, Spain, and carried out postdoctoral research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, in Heidelberg, Germany, and in the lab of Bob Tjian, at UC Berkeley, CA. Before joining Merck in 2006, he held an independent position as a group leader at the University of Helsinki, where he is a docent. Dr Puig has over 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His interest is the development and implementation of biomarkers in Clinical Oncology.