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Edward Ludwig

Edward Ludwig

Board Chairman, GRIP Molecular Technologies, Inc.

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Updated Nov 6, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 29, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Edward Ludwig

Edward Ludwig is board chairman of GRIP Molecular Technologies, a Minnesota company that builds a CRISPR protease platform to detect pathogen RNA. The company announced him as chairman on March 9, 2021. He has more than 45 years in senior executive roles in the medical industry.

Ludwig joined Becton, Dickinson and Company in 1979 and retired in 2012 as chief executive officer and chairman. Earlier, he held various roles at Coopers and Lybrand, where he earned his CPA certificate. He is a former chairman of the board of AdvaMed, a medical technology association. As of March 2021, he served on the boards of CVS Health and Boston Scientific. He formerly served as a director of Xylem. He holds an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. in economics and accounting from the College of the Holy Cross.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Edward Ludwig in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

GRIP Molecular Technologies Inc. Current
Board Chairman
2021 – Present · Saint Paul, MN
A CRISPR protease test platform that detects pathogen RNA in minutes and works with several readout formats.
Becton, Dickinson and Company
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
2012
Coopers and Lybrand
Boston Scientific
Board member
CVS Health Corporation
Board member
AdvaMed
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Chair of the Health Advisory Board
Xylem, Inc.
Director
Hackensack University Medical Center Network
Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees
Center for Higher Ambition Leadership
Founding Board Member
Aetna
Board member
College of Holy Cross
Board member
Columbia Business School
Board member

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Edward Ludwig works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

GRIP Molecular Technologies Inc. · Form D/A, Oct 29, 2026

Sources

  1. SECGRIP Molecular Technologies Inc. Form D/A, filed Oct 29, 2026
  2. releasePR Newswire: Edward Ludwig joins GRIP Molecular Technologies, Inc. as Chairman of the Board (March 9, 2021)
  3. companyGRIP Molecular Technologies home page