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Beachy is President of the International Association of Plant Biotechnology. He belongs to numerous institutional boards, including the PNAS Editorial Board, the NRC Governing Board, the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences), Malaysia’s International Advisory Panel, and the Governing Board of Directors of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and the Burrill and Company Board of Advisors.
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Roger Beachy is president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. He previously held academic positions at Washington University, St. Louis, and the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. His research includes projects to reduce virus infection in plants via biotechnology, and in studies of the control of gene expression in plants. Beachy is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of Microbiology; he has received several awards for his work, including the Wolf Prize in Agriculture. The Danforth Center has committed significant efforts to research in developing countries, including through private-public partnerships, and Beachy is involved in a variety of efforts with regard to rationalizing regulations that control commercialization of agricultural biotechnology.
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