About Us
Learn more about our team and origins.
The Team Origins
Countagen was founded in 2020 as a spinoff from the Mats Nilsson Lab at SciLifeLab, Stockholm. Founders were among the first to utilize padlock probes as a molecular tools for advanced DNA analysis.
Countagen pioneers solutions to accelerate Cell and Gene Therapy discoveries through streamlined genotyping analysis and validation.

The Team

Felix Neumann
CEO & Co-founder
PhD in Biochemistry

Iván Hernández-Neuta
CSO & Co-founder
PhD in Biochemistry

Leiore Ajuria
Product Manager
PhD in Genetics

Trixy Fang
Senior Scientist
PhD in Biochemistry

Joost Bergman
Product Engineer
MSc in Biomedicine

Allison Whalen
Senior Field Application Specialist
Biotech Professional

Sonja Klose
Research Associate
MSc in Medical Biotechnology

Hamid Sharifi
Principal Application Scientist
PhD in Cancer Genetics
Board of Directors

Mårten Winge
Chairman of the Board & Co-founder
Serial Entrepreneur and CEO at Strike Pharma

Jon-Sverre Schanche
Board Member
Board professional and Life Science Research, Technology and Product Dev. advisor

Mats Nilsson
Board Member & Co-founder
Professor in Biochemistry at Stockholm University and Serial Entrepreneur
Scientific Advisors

Mats Nilsson
Board Member
Professor in Biochemistry at Stockholm University and Serial Entrepreneur

Bernhard Schmierer
Scientific Advisor
Head at the CRISPR Functional Genomics unit at Karolinska Institute

Sören Turan
Scientific Advisor
Scientist at Bayer Pharmaceuticals
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