Professor Marc Van Montagu, President of the Lobby European Federation of Biotechnology, will visit Iran upon the invitation of Iran's Scientific Committee of 1st International Conference and 9th National Conference on Biotechnology.
Marc Van Montagu is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) and scientific director of the Genetics Department of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB).
Together with Jozef Schell, he founded the biotech company Plant Genetic Systems Inc. (Belgium) in 1982, in which he was Scientific Director and member of the board of Directors.
Marc Van Montagu was also involved in founding the biotech company CropDesign, of which he was a Board member from 1998 to 2004. He is president of the lobby European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) and of the Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI).
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