Lawrence K. Oliver, Ph.D.

Dr. Oliver joined Mayo Central Laboratory as scientific director in 1997, bringing more than 25 years of academic and private sector experience.

Previous responsibilities include:

• Associate professor of Chemistry at Stanford University
• Operations Manager and Assistant Director of Research at Bio-Sciences Laboratories
• Director of The Clinical Research Laboratories at The Upjohn Company

 

Currently Dr. Oliver is the Scientific Director of Mayo Clinical Trial Services in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. He is the past chair of the Mayo Laboratory Society.

Research leadership

Dr. Oliver's research includes:

• Performance definitions of efficacy surrogate markers
• Clinical and analytical validation of biomarkers of safety and efficacy

Extramural activities

Dr. Oliver is a fellow of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles in Clinical Chemistry, Sleep Medicine, and Journal of the American Chemistry Society.

At Mayo Clinic and around the country, Dr. Oliver teaches and lectures extensively on the role of the clinical laboratory in drug development, critical issues for the laboratory in drug development, and surrogate markers in drug development.

Dr. Oliver received his B.Sc. from California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He completed postdoctoral work at the Mental Health Research Institute of the University of Michigan.