User:David G. Pisano

Born in 1970 in Oviedo, Spain, Pisano graduated in Biology from the Universidad de Oviedo. His postgraduate work involved the application of numeric techniques to analyse stability data and the development of mathematic language interpreters to process HPLC signals.

In 1998 he was recruited by Thermo Fisher Scientific and was shortly after appointed as Services Delivery Manager for Spain, Portugal and Latin America. At Thermo Pisano gained international experience in providing professional IT services for research, analytical and industrial sectors.

In 2001 he joined the molecular diagnostics company Genómica (Zeltia), Madrid, as Head Bioinformatician where he worked at the Functional Genomics Unit focusing on development of cancer biomarker discovery tools using DNA array technology.

Pisano moved to the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, in 2004 as Technical Manager for the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB). He was in charge of establishing a nation-wide Bioinformatics platform to support large-scale genome projects.

He joined the CNIO as Head of the Bioinformatics Unit in 2006.