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Dr. David Fischhoff is Vice President, Technology Strategy & Development, and Chief of Staff for the Technology division at Monsanto Company. He has responsibilities in the areas of technology strategy, new technology acquisition, management of the R&D portfolio, and intellectual property.
Since 1983 Dr. Fischhoff has held multiple positions at Monsanto in biotechnology research and business development. Dr. Fischhoff invented and developed insect resistant transgenic crop plants. He and his team were the first to develop insect resistant tomato, potato, cotton and corn through the expression of insecticidal genes from Bt. Dr. Fischhoff and his Monsanto colleague, Dr. Frederick Perlak, invented the “synthetic gene” technology for expression of Bt genes in plants, which was the breakthrough that made possible Monsanto’s highly successful insect resistant biotech traits including Bollgardâ and Bollgard IIâ Cotton, YieldGard Corn Borerâ, and YieldGard Rootwormâ Corn. Today, insect resistant crops based on Dr. Fischhoff’s technology are planted on more than 80 million acres annually in more than 10 countries. For his work on insect resistant crops, Dr. Fischhoff has been honored with Monsanto’s two top awards for science and technology. Dr. Fischhoff also initiated and led Monsanto’s plant genomics research program. From 1998 through 2002 he was President of Cereon Genomics, a Monsanto subsidiary, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cereon Genomics was a collaborative research venture between Monsanto and Millennium Pharmaceuticals and functioned as Monsanto’s primary genomics research center. Dr. Fischhoff received his S.B. in Biology from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from The Rockefeller University. He is the inventor on key patents related to insect resistant plants, an author of more than 25 scientific publications, and an invited speaker at numerous national and international symposia.
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