Associate Director Chemistry
Vipergen ApS, Denmark
Lars Kolster Petersen, PhD (associate director chemistry, Vipergen ApS) graduated as chemical engineer from the Technical University of Denmark in 1998 where he also received his PhD in 2001 after working in the field of carbohydrate chemistry under supervision of Knud J. Jensen. Based on a background of synthetic organic chemistry, he directly joined a start-up company founded on synthesis and screening of quorum sensing inhibitors. After this, he joined Vipergen during the start-up phase in 2005, where he has been working since in fields of organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, and design, synthesis, and analysis of DNA encoded libraries.