Richard Sayre is a Professor of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology at Ohio State University and co-founder of Phycotransgenics, L.L.C.
Phycotransgenics is a biotechnology company that specializes in the development of transgenic algae that have market-driven properties. Markets that the company is focusing on include animal health, animal feed, bioremediation, environmental monitoring and biopesticides.
Richard received his undergraduate degree from Humboldt State University in California and his Ph. D. in Biology from the University of Iowa. He has completed postdoctoral research at Florida State University, University of Kentucky, and Harvard University.
So one of the issues is that our product will be pathogen free. So that limits the competition mostly to the green companies that are using plant or plantlike systems to develop vaccines. Another issue is biocontainment and that's a very important concern when you're looking at vaccines because th...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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