– CHINA, Beijing – Origin Agritech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SEED), an agriculture technology company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Shaojiang Chen (Ph.D.) to its Board as an Independent Director, effective November 1, 2022.
“We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Chen to the Origin Board. Dr. Chen is world-renowned for his many important innovations in traditional and next-generation corn breeding. He is also very well connected in the agritech community in China, which will benefit Origin on numerous fronts,” said Board Chairman, Dr. Gengchen Han.
About Dr. Shaojiang Chen
Dr. Shaojiang Chen is currently a professor at the China Agricultural University, Agronomy College, where he has been teaching since 2000. From 2017 to 2022, Dr. Shaojiang Chen also served as the Director at the Maize Breeding Engineering Center of the MOE and has served as the Vice-Director at the National Maize Improvement Center of China. Dr. Chen is widely published on many topics relating to fertilization and corn plant genetics. He also worked on a Sino-German Program at the University of Hohenheim, Germany from 2003 to 2013.
Dr. Chen has a BA from Henan Agricultural University in Agronomy, an MSc in Crop Genetics and Breeding from Henan Agricultural University, and a Ph.D. in Crop Genetics and Breeding, from Northeast Agricultural University.
About Origin Agritech Limited
Origin Agritech Limited, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Zhong-Guan-Cun Life Science Park in Beijing, is a leading Chinese agricultural technology company. In crop seed biotechnologies, Origin Agritech’s phytase corn was the first transgenic corn to receive the Bio-Safety Certificate from China’s Ministry of Agriculture. Over the years, Origin has established a robust biotechnology seed pipeline including products with glyphosate tolerance and pest resistance (Bt) traits.
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