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 Peter
Sijmons is founder and director of LabScores, a company
for Laboratory Management Information Systems (LIMS)
that was started as a result of the relational databases
that were developed over the years for CatchMabs BV (see
below). This highly specialized software was pivotal in
obtaining ISO9002 certification for both the research
and production units of CatchMabs.
The LIMS package was rewritten to make it more generally
available for companies in the life sciences.
Prior to LabScores, he was founder and CEO of CatchMabs
BV, a biotech company in Wageningen, the Netherlands,
that focussed on the development of molecular affinity
bodies for industrial applications of affinity
chromatography and where the Tsunami Bioreactor was
invented. Due to lack of investors, all activities of
CatchMabs had to be terminated in the summer of 2006.
CatchMabs BV originated in 2001 from Cellscreen BV, a
startup company in the area of protein/protein
interactions that was also initiated by Peter Sijmons in
a period where he was doing consultancy activities for a
number of biotech companies, banks and the Life Science
Incubator in Wageningen (1999-2000).
From 1999-2003, Sijmons was member of the Executive
Board of the European Federation of Biotechnology and
chairman of the EFB section on Agri-Biotechnology. From
1997-1999 he was Research Director of the Institute for
Agrotechnological Research (ATO-DLO) in Wageningen and
played a pivotal role in the legal structure of
technology transfer from Wageningen University and
Research Centre to the private industry. He joined the
management team of ATO-DLO in 1994 as head of the
department for Postharvest Physiology and Molecular
Biology and was appointed division manager (Fresh
Produce) in 1995. In 1987, he became member of the
start-up team of Mogen International, the first plant
biotechnology company in the Netherlands. For a period
of 7 years, he had several scientific and management
positions at Mogen.
Sijmons has a PhD in plant physiology after a cum laude
biology study at the University of Amsterdam and has
published over 30 scientific publications in refereed
journals and books, is inventor on 11 patents and has
written a range of editorials and invited articles in
technical journals.
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