Lara Flores
Senior Vice President of Operations
Lara leads all operations at RDI, overseeing our sample collection and CLIA lab teams. She is a diagnostic executive experienced in managing CRO clinical trial teams and both CLIA/CAP and research lab operations. Most recently, Lara managed Global Lab Operations at NeoGenomics where she restructured their project management, data management, and lab operations teams to better serve pharma and biotech clients.
Prior to that role, Lara managed business services and clinical operations at Beaufort, an in vitro diagnostics CRO, where she helped diagnostic sponsors design and execute their studies. Lara holds a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, has authored several publications, and developed and validated 80+ assays in her career as an assay validation scientist at LabCorp, Genzyme, One Lambda (Thermo Fisher), Pathway Diagnostics (Quest Diagnostics), and Amgen.