Our team is our greatest asset

Magnus Molin, PhD.
CTO

Magnus has 17 years of experience from leading roles in diagnostics development including nucleic acid detection, microfluidics, microarray technologies and immunodiagnostics. Magnus has a Master of Science in biology and a PhD in medical virology from Uppsala University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Liza Löf, PhD.
CEO

Liza holds a PhD in molecular medicine from 2016. She has a strong academic record and profound knowledge of the technologies that are the foundation of the products. Previous experience from the medical device industry in R&D, process development and project management.

Despoina Kermpatsou, PhD. Scientist

Despoina is a molecular biologist with significant experience in DNA-based method development and oligonucleotide design in innovative molecular assays. Despoina has a Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacology from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Cell Biology from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Ehsan Manouchehri, PhD. Scientist

Ehsan has a strong academic background in Microbiology and Immunology, complemented by a Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from Uppsala University. Great expertise in molecular assay development, oligo design, and cutting-edge biological techniques. He brings a diverse skill set cultivated through extensive experience in molecular medicine research together with skills in Python and R programming.

Sofia Larsson, MSc.
Research Engineer

Sofia holds a Master in molecular biotechnology engineering from Uppsala University with focus on production. Sofia has experience from working in life science industry and regulatory. Sofia also has many years of experience from working in several non-profit boards. 

Board of Directors

Ove Öhman - Chairman of Board of Directors

Serial entrepreneur, brings a strong track record from his experiences in the life science industry.

Liza Löf

CEO of Readily Diagnostics. PhD in molecular medicine from 2016. Liza is co-inventor and inventor of the techniques used at Readily´s platform. She has a strong academic record and profound knowledge of the technologies that are the foundation of the products. Previous experience from the medical device industri in R&D, process development and project management.

Ulf Landegren

Professor of molecular medicine, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and EMBO. Ulf is the founder of the Molecular Tools laboratory at Uppsala University where he has been inventing methods such as Padlock Probes, Proximity Ligation Assays in solution and in situ, spinning out companies such as Olink Proteomics, Navinci, Q-Linea, Rarity and Vesicode, amongst others.  

Johan Winnerblad

Laywer and Partner at Vinge law firm. He is highly experiensed on acquistion and divestments in both domestic corporates and private equity funds.

Masood Kamali-Moghaddam

Professor of molecular diagnostics. He received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Microbiology at Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biosciences at Uppsala University. He held then a post-doctoral position at Center for Molecular Genetics at the University of California, San Diego, and a second post-doctoral position at Dept. of Genetics and Pathology/ Div. of Molecular Tools at Uppsala University. The research in Prof. Kamali’s laboratory is currently focused on development of highly sensitive molecular tools for proteome analysis, and detection and characterization of higher order molecules such as exosomes as biomarkers for early diagnostics.

Collaborators and Partners

Founders

  • Liza Löf

    FOUNDER / CEO

  • Masood Kamali-Moghaddam

    FOUNDER

  • Ulf Landegren

    FOUNDER

  • Ove Öhman

    FOUNDER

  • UU Invest

    FOUNDER

  • Magnus Molin

    FOUNDER / CTO

Awards & Recognitions

  • Bona Postulata is Latin and means good conditions. The Bona Postulata Award is a local business award that wants to encourage companies based in Uppsala County with strong growth potential. It can be both the smaller and the larger company. It is the growth potential that decides. Behind the award are 15 well-known companies and business organizations in the county who, in this way, want to contribute to companies with good conditions developing and getting the attention and support they deserve.

  • Liza Löf and Masood Kamali-Moghaddam receives an award from UU Innovation