Dr. Kocher joined Mayo Clinic in October 2005 to develop and direct the activities of the newly created Bioinformatics Core. In 2008, he became Chair of the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics (BSI) that regrouped experts in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and Computer Science. BSI's activities include the analysis of clinical and genomics data and support to clinical trials and the division is actively engaged in the development of the infrastructure to manage clinical and genomics data. In addition, the division maintains an active research program in support of the development of statistical, bioinformatics and informatics methodologies.

Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, Dr. Kocher was Director of Computational Chemistry at Camitro Corp., where his responsibilities included the development of computational models to predict ADME properties of drug-like compounds. He then became CEO at Molecular Networks, a privately own chemoinformatics company that focused on the development of software applications and services for the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr. Kocher received his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from the University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and his M.S. in Informatics and B.S. in Chemistry from the University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

Dr. Kocher's scientific interest focuses on the development and application of computational methods to advance the understanding of molecular mechanisms that underlie clinical disorders.