Lao Saal

Biography

Lao Saal is a Founder and CEO of this company. A childhood cancer survivor himself, Lao is passionate about improving cancer diagnosis and treatment. Lao trained at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he received MD and PhD degrees, with distinction, in 2008. After clinical postdoctoral research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Lao established an independent research group at Lund University, Sweden in 2009. Since then, as Assistant Professor and Head of the Translational Oncogenomics Unit, he has led a team spearheading research in circulating tumor DNA, mutational analyses of cancer, and RNA-sequencing. This research forms the basis of SAGA Diagnostics. He is an author of over 30 publications in leading journals such as Nature Genetics, Science, and PNAS. 

Research Interest

 Haematology