Meritxell Oliva
Senior Researcher at AbbVie
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMeritxell Oliva is a Senior Researcher with 11+ years of expertise in functional genomics, specializing in statistical analysis and custom pipelines to link genotype to phenotype across molecular layers such as DNA methylation and gene expression. She has led projects characterizing genetic regulation in diverse contexts—sex, cell type, ischemia—and translated those insights into disease-relevant findings at the University of Chicago and now at AbbVie. Her work blends rigorous computational methods, data visualization, and benchmarking (including cell-type deconvolution) to uncover context-specific regulatory mechanisms and gene-trait associations. Trained with a PhD focused on polymorphic inversions and tissue-specific positional effects, she brings deep expertise in both somatic and germline genomic variation. Notably, she combines academic rigor with industry impact, moving discoveries toward therapeutic understanding across multiple AbbVie-supported areas. Open to new collaborations, she thrives on solving complex biological problems with tailored analytical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Biotechnology, Biotechnology at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBioinformatics for Health Science, Bioinformatics for Health Science at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Catalan, Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
samtools8
bcftools8
factor1
factor-analysis1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
meritxellop/eGTEx_mQTLs_eQTLs_GWAS
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 2 days
AbbVie-ComputationalGenomics/COVID19_coloc_shiny
Mar 2024 - Sep 2024
R shiny app to interact with COVID-19 GWAS QTL colocalization results
Contributions:5 pushes in 6 months
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