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Ventria has actively developed a leading scientific network, which acts as a source of product and technology innovation and complementary technology development. The current members of our network include:

Dr. Roger Beachy
Roger, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, is internationally known for his work on virus-resistant plants. In January 1999, he assumed the position of President of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, in St. Louis, Missouri.
www.danforthcenter.org

Dr. Eric Conn
Eric, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is a pioneer in the biosynthesis and utilization of cyanide in higher plants. He also discovered phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, one of the most important regulatory enzymes in the plant cell. Eric is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at University of California, Davis.

Dr. Gurdev Khush
Gurdev, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, retired as the principal plant breeder and head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biochemistry Division of the International Rice Research Institute. Gurdev, winner of the World Food Prize, is the premier rice breeder in the world. Today, rice crops serve as a staple food for one-half of the world's population. His contributions in rice genetics and breeding have provided the scientific basis for the green revolution in Asia and other parts of the world.
www.irri.org/VIS/prl0801.htm
www.irri.org/VIS/prl1001.htm
www.riceworld.org/drkopen.html

Dr. Bo Lonnerdal
Bo, a Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis, received his master's and doctoral degrees in Biochemistry at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Bo has had a long career in the study of in vitro and in vivo activity of human milk proteins.

Dr. Ray Rodriguez
Ray is one of the early pioneers of biotechnology. As an A.P. Giannini and NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Herbert Boyer at the UC Medical Center in San Francisco, he developed technologies that now serve as the foundation of the modern biotechnology industry. In 1993, he founded Ventria Bioscience and served as its board chairman until 1999. Ray currently serves as Chairman and C.E.O. of Davis Bioscience Group, a life-science consulting company. Ray is a professor in the Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of California, Davis.
www.mcb.ucdavis.edu/rodriguez/
www.davisbioscience.com

Dr. Diter von Wettstein
Diter, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, has published 300 papers in genetics, plant breeding, developmental physiology, cell biology, plant biochemistry, and molecular biology. He is a leader in the area of production of high-value molecules in transgenic cereals. Diter is a professor at the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University.