Professor Sweetlove has over 30 years of experience working in plant science and is internationally recognised for his work in deciphering fluxes in plant metabolic networks. His expertise and network will be invaluable to Moa in helping prioritise and deliver our innovative plant protection solutions.
Spun out of Oxford University in 2017, Moa has developed proprietary technology to discover a whole new generation of herbicidal modes of action to provide farmers with modern crop protection solutions which break weed resistance. In the last three years, Moa’s GALAXY platform has already screened over 750,000 compounds and discovered over 70 promising novel herbicidal mode of action areas. In July 2024, Moa signed a major partnership with Nufarm to co-develop and commercialise one of these new chemical series.
Comments Professor Sweetlove:
Working with Moa is an ideal opportunity for me to put my many years of experience of plant biochemistry and metabolism research to direct practical use. I am very excited to be working with this world-class scientific team on deepening our understanding of the dozens of novel herbicidal modes of action already discovered by the company, and helping progress these solutions as quickly as possible to the field.
Dr Virginia Corless, Chief Executive of Moa Technology, adds:
As we grow ever closer to bringing a new generation of modern, safe, effective herbicides to farmers’ fields, we are so pleased to welcome Professor Lee Sweetlove to our team. From the outset, Moa has combined the most innovative academic minds in the world with the best commercial talent in the industry to address the urgent global problem of weed resistance. Following our appointments in the last year of Hartmut van Lengerich, former SVP at Bayer Global Crop Protection, as Chair of the Moa Board, and Apostolos Klontzaris, formerly of Bayer Crop Science and Syngenta Crop Protection, as Chief Business Officer, Lee’s appointment will help ensure our expertise at the leading edge of weed biology remains second to none.