Magda Marquet

Magda Marquet Mandicó (born 1958) is an Andorran biotechnologist and laboratory businesswoman. She has spent most of her professional career in San Diego, United States.

Career Marquet was born in 1958 in Canillo, Andorra. Her mother died when she was young. Marquet got a PhD in biochemistry from the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse (INSA), France. Shortly after completing her studies, she began working at a biotechnology company called Transgene in France.

She moved to California with her husband, François Ferré, also a scientist, where he went to do post-doctoral research at the University of California in the late 1980s. The company was acquired in 2013 by Ajinomoto Althea Inc.

Marquet is also a member of non-profit organisations such as BIOCOM, San Diego Economic Development Corporation and the Kyoto Symposium Organization and the University of California, San Diego's Moores Cancer Centre and Biological Sciences Dean Leadership Council.

She has also been honorary consul of Andorra to California. Marquet, Magda, et al. Plasmid Stability during Continuous Culture in aSaccharomyces Cerevisiae Double Mutant Transformed by a Plasmid Carrying a Eukaryotic Gene. Biotechnology Letters, 1986. Cappello, J., Crissman, J., Dorman, M., Mikolajczak, M., Textor, G., Marquet, M. and Ferrari, F. (1990), Genetic Engineering of Structural Protein Polymers. Biotechnol Progress, 6: 198-202. Horn, Nancy A., et al. Cancer Gene Therapy Using Plasmid DNA: Purification of DNA for Human Clinical Trials. no. 5, 1995, pp. 565–73.