Founder of BMSystems; Chairman, CSO-CTO – Geneticist, physiologist & molecular biologist; Inventor of the CADI methodologies and tools. He holds a Ph.D. in Zoology and is in charge of all model-building activities within the company. Creator of Millennium Pharmaceuticals’ (USA) high-throughput DNA sequencing unit. Former collaborator of Nobel Laureate Prof. Jean Dausset. Inventor of new technologies in molecular biology (6 issued patents). MRC Overseas fellow, Member of H.U.G.O., Wellcome Trust Systems Biology expert board. Member of the Cambridge Healthtech Institute Scientific Committee, Member of the Evaluation committee for the funding priorities in the “Medical Systems Biology- MedSys” program; German Federal ministry of Research. 16 original articles in international journals including Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics, Genomics, J Mol Endocrinol, J Comp Biochem Physiol. 7 international patents, 7 book chapters, numerous invited communications at international conferences