Raquel Sanches-Kuiper

Raquel Sanches-Kuiper was appointed Director of Biology of Evonetix in February 2017, bringing an extensive track-record of taking new ideas from concept phase to commercialised products in the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) space.

Before joining Evonetix, Raquel was at Solexa (then Illumina Inc.) from 2002 as a Protein Engineer and major contributor to its disruptive NGS technology. She then moved to leadership roles of global multidisciplinary projects to support product development and introduction of new products. She also acted as a Consultant for projects in collaboration with Genomics England, Technology Development and Applications, and Customer Support.

Prior to that, Raquel was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, in the area of cancer gene therapy.

Raquel holds a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Auvergne and a MSci in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.