VPCIR is based on the joined forces of senior research teams from Aarhus University and Chinese University of Hong Kong who in 2018 founded VPCIR biosciences based on their shared knowledge base and IPR in the field of DNA modifying enzymes and nanoengineering.

Co-founders and co-owners Dr. Birgitta R. Knudsen, Dr. Yi Ping Ho and Dr. Magnus Stougaard are still actively engaged in the company R&D and its management.

The founders soon teamed-up with entrepreneur Jan Mousing bringing in deep management experience in food research and development, food safety and food safety control and regulation on an international basis.

All based on prior positions as CEO of agricultural knowledge and innovation center SEGES; CVO at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration; CEO of the Danish Veterinary and Food Research Institute and Senior Vice President for R&D at FOSS A/S – a leading supplier of analytical food solutions. Jan also served as a Member of the Management Board of the European Food Safety Authority EFSA from 2010-18.