Marta Palicio

Marta Palicio is the R&D Innovation Director at Werfen’s Immunoassay Technology Centre in Barcelona. Werfen is a growing, family-owned and innovative company, founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. It is a global leader in specialised diagnostics in the fields of Haemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity and Transplantation.

In her role, Marta drives innovation by scouting new products and technologies of interest to the company, exploring opportunities for collaboration, and fostering internal innovation.

She has more than twenty-five years’ experience in biomedical research and biotechnology. Following her PhD, Marta worked at Genset, a French pharmacogenomics company, as Programme Coordinator. She then joined Eurasanté, an agency specialising in the economic development of the health sector in the Nord–Pas de Calais region of France, as International Affairs Manager. Between 2006 and 2012, she served as Scientific Business Developer at Oryzon, a Spanish biomarker and therapeutic target discovery company. Marta has been with Werfen since 2012.