Dr. Jean-Pierre Kocher joined Mayo Clinic in October 2005 to develop and direct the activities of the newly created Bioinformatics Core (BIC). The BIC was created to answer the increasing demand for bioinformatics support from investigators across Mayo Clinic. Its mission is to develop and maintain state of the art services to help researchers take advantage of "omics" technologies to enable discoveries that will impact patient care. The BIC includes a team of informatics experts specialized in the analysis of high throughput genomics, proteomics and metabolomics data.

Prior to his assignment at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Kocher served as Director of Computational Chemistry at Camitro Corp., where his responsibilities included the development of computational models to predict ADME properties and CEO as Molecular Networks, a privately own chemoinformatics company.

Dr. Kocher's research interest is in the domain of life science informatics. More specifically, his research activities focus on the development and application of computational methods to advance the understanding of molecular mechanisms that underlie clinical disorders.