Vincent Linder's Biography

Vincent Linder, CTO, OPKO Diagnostics

Dr. Linder serves as Chief Technology Officer at OPKO Diagnostics, a company focusing on the commercialization of clinical diagnostics products, including a high-performance Point-of-Care test system (Claros1TM) and a high-specificity laboratory test for prostate cancer (4KscoreTM). He is also a co-founder of Claros Diagnostics Inc. (now part of OPKO) and co-invented the Claros technology, while being a post-doctorate fellow in George Whitesides’ laboratory at Harvard University. Dr. Linder also worked as Group Leader in microfluidics at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), and has served as Research Scientist at CSEM (Switzerland), a leading company in micro/nanotechnology and microelectronics. He holds a M.Sc. in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Neuchatel, where he performed research in the area of microfluidic technology for immunoassays with Prof. Nico de Rooij, one of the pioneers in the field of microfluidics.