Paul Lopez joined RG-LatinoAmerica in January 2006 and is currently its laboratory director. Under his supervision, this lab has continuously grown and he has implemented most of the tests currently used in RG-US. Lopez received a Bachelor in Biological Sciences with a mention on Cellular Biology and Genetics in 2002 and his Master Degree in Molecular Biology in 2010, both in the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú. After receiving his degree, he worked as a collaborating professor in Human Genetics, Molecular Biology and Forensics, in the San Marcos University, Peru in a collaboration program between such University and New Mexico and Arizona Universities. He later co-founded the Human Identification Laboratory of the Legal Medicine Institute of the Public Ministry of the Public Prosecutor Office in Peru and published several research papers in that period. He stayed in that company 4 years.