Mar Gonzalez-Porta

Mar Gonzalez-Porta serves as the VP of Product Engineering at Nalagenetics since January 2022, focusing on product development and regulatory activities related to whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for pharmacogenomics and disease risk prediction. Prior experience includes a role as Staff Scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore from January 2020 to December 2021, contributing to the National Precision Medicine Program aimed at sequencing the genomes of 100,000 Singaporeans. Mar has also held positions such as PCR Platform Head at Stronghold Diagnostics Laboratory, where coordination of COVID-19 testing labs took place, and Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina, where leadership in the 100,000 Genomes Project was demonstrated. Early career experience includes a Predoctoral Fellowship at EMBL-EBI, internships at the Center for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Rovira i Virgili, with educational qualifications comprising a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Biotechnology from Universitat Rovira i Virgili.