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 the Director of Assay Development and High Throughput
at the Scripps Research Institute where he was responsible for the development
of high throughput small molecule drug screens. 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.
Marylinn Munson, VP Business Development
Ms. Munson has over twenty years of business development, sales, marketing, and scientific experience in the life science industry. Prior to joining Biomatrica, Ms. Munson served initially as the Director of Sales, America and later as the Director of Global Sales Operations at Illumina during her four year tenure there. As a result of the partnerships and business development activities she led at Illumina, she is the recipient of 2008 USDA National Technology Transfer Award and the 2009 Federal Lab Consortium Award, which are both considered among the highest awards for outstanding efforts and technology transfer provided by the USDA and Federal Lab Consortium. Preceding her experience at Illumina, Ms. Munson worked at Agilent Technologies, Nanogen, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech and Molecular Dynamics. Ms. Munson graduated from the University of Oregon and earned her B.A. in Chemistry.
