Management
Judy Müller-Cohn, Ph.D., Founder and CEO
Judy Müller-Cohn, Ph.D. is co-founder of Biomatrica® and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. She oversees the strategic direction of the company, including finance, operations and product commercialization.
Judy has more than 13 years experience bringing life science products
to market. Previously, Judy was Director of Business Development at Digital
Gene Technologies. Preceeding her experience at Digital Gene Technologies,
Judy was a scientist at Mycogen/Dow AgroSciences.
Judy holds a doctorate from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, and a Masters of Science from Oregon State University. She received a B.A. from Evergreen State College. Judy is the author of numerous papers and patents.
Rolf Müller, Ph.D., Founder, President, and CSO
Rolf Müller, Ph.D. is co-founder of Biomatrica and serves as its Chief Scientific Officer. He oversees the patent portfolio, laboratory operations, new product development and strategic alliances.
Rolf has more than 10 years of experience in starting biotechnology companies
and is an expert in high throughput genomics and proteomics technologies.
He was most recently a Visiting Scientist and Director, Assay Development and High Throughput Screening for the HIV Core Program Project Grant
at the Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA. Prior to his position
at Scripps, he served as Director of Molecular Biology at HK Pharmaceuticals,
where he assisted in establishing the company and conceptualized the drug
discovery process. Before HK, Rolf was the Director of the Total Gene
Expression Analysis Services Department at Digital Gene Technologies and
was responsible for scientific direction, including industrial scale gene
discovery, database mining and bioinformatics integration. He also served
as a scientist at the Salk Institute studying cell signaling and viral
based gene therapy approaches.
Rolf holds a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular virology from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, and a B.S. in agricultural biology from the Universität Stuttgart-Hohenheim in Germany. He is the author of numerous publications and patents.
