Dr. Roger N. Beachy

Dr. Roger Beachy is the founding president of the not-for-profit Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Beachy is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and in 2001 received the Wolf Prize in Agriculture. He is a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Science, India, and Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr Beachy was awarded the Dennis Robert Hoagland Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Ruth Allen Award from the American Phytopathological Society, and was the 1991 recipient of the Bank of Delaware's Commonwealth Award for Science and Industry. Research in Dr. Beachy's work in plant molecular biology, virology and biotechnology includes developing genetically enhanced crops with resistance to plant virus diseases.