Paul Muchowski
PhD ’98

About Paul Muchowski

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Job title: CEO & CSO

Degrees: PhD ’98

Career stage: Mid-career

State of practice: San Francisco, CA

Current practice settings: Research – industry

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Changing specialty
  • Starting a family while maintaining a full-time practice
  • Leaving a practice
  • Starting a private practice

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 1998

Fellowship: Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry

Specialty/subspecialty: Biochemistry and Neuroscience

Teaching roles: Medical Schools

Research or other professional interests: Sleep neuroscience; neurodegenerative diseases

Paul’s Bio: Dr. Paul Muchowski, CEO and CSO of Defined Research Inc., is a renowned neuroscientist with a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and further training with Dr. Ulrich Hartl at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. In 2018 Paul founded Defined Research, a biotechnology company whose mission is to develop proprietary, clinically proven CBD-based products targeted at the relief of major human ailments with an initial focus on insomnia.

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