Biotalys Appoints Michiel van Lookeren Campagne to Board of Directors
April 19 2022 - 1:00AM
Biotalys Appoints Michiel van Lookeren Campagne to Board of
Directors
Press release
Biotalys (Euronext: BTLS), an Agricultural
Technology (AgTech) company protecting crops and food with
protein-based biocontrol solutions, today announced the appointment
of Dr. Michiel van Lookeren Campagne to its Board of Directors,
following its annual shareholders meeting last week.
“We are delighted to welcome Michiel to the
board of Biotalys,” commented Simon
Moroney, Chairman
of Biotalys. “With decades of experience driving
scientific advances for the agricultural industry in leadership
positions around the globe, Michiel will bring valuable
perspectives to the Board in support of the company’s efforts to
make protein-based biocontrols a standard part of the crop and food
protection toolkit in the years ahead.”
As a pivotal player in innovations in
biotechnology, Dr. van Lookeren Campagne held a variety of
leadership roles at Syngenta and Bayer. At Syngenta, he was Head of
Seeds Research based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and
at Bayer CropScience, he headed the research for its BioScience
business. Prior to that, he held scientific research roles at
Wageningen University & Research Centre (WUR). He currently
serves as the Director Agriculture & Food for CSIRO,
Australia’s national science agency. He will be relocating back to
Europe this summer.
“Biotalys is quickly becoming an important force
in the rise of new biological solutions aiming to protect produce
from farm to plate and sustainably feed our growing population,”
noted Dr. Michiel van
Lookeren Campagne. “I look forward to working with the
Board and the Biotalys executive team to broaden the impact of its
portfolio and ensure that the company earns the global market
traction it deserves.”
Michiel van Lookeren Campagne earned his M.S.
and PhD in Developmental Biology from Leiden University in the
Netherlands. Early in his career, he also served as an Assistant
Professor and Associate Research Scientist at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
The annual shareholders meeting appointed Dr.
van Lookeren Campagne as independent director of Biotalys with
effect on 1 June 2022 for a period ending immediately after the
ordinary general meeting in 2026.
About Biotalys
Biotalys is an Agricultural Technology (AgTech)
company protecting crops and food with proprietary protein-based
biocontrol solutions and aiming to provide alternatives to
conventional chemical pesticides for a more sustainable and safer
food supply. Based on its novel AGROBODY™ technology platform,
Biotalys is developing a strong and diverse pipeline of effective
product candidates with a favorable safety profile that aim to
address key crop pests and diseases across the whole value chain,
from soil to plate. Biotalys was founded in 2013 as a spin-off from
the VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and is listed on
Euronext Brussels since July 2021. The company is based in the
biotech cluster in Ghent, Belgium. More information can be found on
www.biotalys.com.
For further information, please
contact:
Toon Musschoot, Head of IR & CommunicationT:
+32 (0)9 274 54 00E: Toon.Musschoot@biotalys.com
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