About Us
Learn more about who we are.
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 tool for technical innovation and scientific exploration.
Countagen is pioneering methods and building products to simplify & accelerate genetic target validation for cell & gene therapy discovery.
The Team
Felix Neumann
CEO
PhD in Biochemistry
Iván Hernández-Neuta
CSO
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
Board of Directors
Mårten Winge
Chairman of the Board
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
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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