Paul Kolhaas

Paul Kohlhaas is a visionary entrepreneur and economist at the forefront of the Decentralized Science (DeSci) movement, bridging biotechnology and Web3 technology to transform how medical research is funded. After graduating from the University of St. Gallen, he focused his career on solving the funding crisis in drug development. As the co-founder of Molecule AG and BIO Protocol, Paul has pioneered the use of blockchain to tokenize intellectual property, allowing patient communities and researchers to directly fund and co-own early-stage scientific discoveries. With a deep background in blockchain infrastructure from his early days at ConsenSys and Linum Labs, he is widely recognized as a leading global voice on crypto-economics and open science.