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Ward Decaestecker

Scientist, Inari Agriculture, BE
Biography

Ward obtained his Master degree in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from the University of Leuven in 2011. After his studies, he started working in the Plant Transformation Group at CropDesign (BASF Plant Science). After five years in industry, he returned to academia to pursue a PhD on plant genome editing in the group of Dr. Thomas Jacobs at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology. During his PhD, he worked on improving gene editing tools for plants and developed a method for tissue specific gene editing, termed CRISPR-TSKO. In 2021, Ward joined Inari Agriculture, where he is continuing his work and contributing to the development of Inari’s toolbox for Advanced Multiplex Gene Editing.

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