Molecular Sensing's Leadership Team

Dr. Rich has over 30 years experience in research, marketing, and general management in the instrumentation field. He is a founder, and retired CEO/President of Ciphergen Biosystems. He was CEO/President of BioSepra, SVP of Sepracor, and SVP of Dionex, as a member of the founding team. Dr. Rich received his PhD in chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and completed post-doctoral work at Duke University in biochemistry. He completed the Executive Management Program at Stanford University. He holds a number of patents related to bioanalytical instrumentation.

Scot has over 20 years experience in life science instrumentation before founding Molecular Sensing. Most recently, he founded GenNext Technologies, a company dedicated to advancing education in translational medicine. Scot was Director of Research Proteomics for Ciphergen Biosystems, where he led R&D in mass spectrometry and molecular interaction technology. Earlier in his career he was VP of R&D at Linear Scientific, which he helped sell to Hewlett-Packard and Spectra-Physics and subsequently held key R&D positions at both companies. Scot's academic training was in cellular biology with a BS degree and post-graduate medical school training from the University of Nevada, Reno. Scot holds 30 different US and international patents in the areas of life science research.

Dr. Bornhop is the inventor of Back-scattering Interferometry (BSI), co-founder and Director. Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt University, Darryl held joint professor and research positions at Texas Tech University and TTU Southwest Cancer Center. His industrial career included VP of R&D for Medivision, an endoscopic imaging company. He also held R&D positions with scientific instrumentation companies including Lee Scientific/Dionex and Spectra-Physics. Dr. Bornhop's academic background includes BS and MA degrees from the University of Missouri and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Wyoming in the laboratory of Dr. Norm Dovichi. In his group at Vanderbilt, Darryl currently directs over a dozen PhD and post-docs students.