Dr. Isaac Garcia-Murillas The Institute of Cancer Research, UK

Dr Garcia-Murillas is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research in London. Dr Garcia-Murillas leads and develops the use of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and digital PCR (dPCR) technologies to study circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) from liquid biopsies.... read moreHis research interests converge in the clinical utility of ctDNA as a potential biomarker to detect Molecular Residual Disease, monitor response to treatment, stratify patients to targeted therapies and identify the emergence of drug resistance. Dr Garcia-Murillas read Genetics and Immunology at the University of Aberdeen as an undergraduate student before undertaking his PhD at The University of Cambridge where he worked in the role of lipids as second messengers. Dr Garcia-Murillas continued his research as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Institute of Cancer Research working in the development of RNA aptamers to target activated RAS GTPases before moving to his current position.