Troels Koch, PhD

Troels Koch is Chief Technology Officer at Cora Biosciences. TK has 20+ years experience in the international life science and biopharmaceutical industry. Founder of several biotech companies of which Exiqon A/S and Santaris Pharma A/S are the most known. Santaris Pharma A/S was acquired by Roche in August 2014 - and Exiqon A/S was in 2016 acquired by Qiagen. TK pioneered LNA therapeutics and has positioned LNA antisense science and technology at an international lead position. TK has worked with RNA therapeutics for more than 20 years and taken an active role in all steps of oligonucleotide drug discovery and development. TK has built R&D organizations up to 75 co-workers, held >100 invited presentations at international conferences and is author of 90 peer reviewed publications.