Source: Lauren K. Ohnesorge, TRIANGLE BUSINESS JOURNAL, 9/11/18


Thirty-five years after her team produced the first transgenic plant – a eureka moment that have many calling her the founder of modern plant biotechnology – local science phenom Mary-Dell Chilton is retiring from her lab at Syngenta in Research Triangle Park. Chilton, whose honors have included the World Food Prize and induction into both the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Hall of Heroes, has been coming to work every day for decades in RTP, painstakingly separating plasmids in test tubes and creating science intended to solve the world’s hunger crisis.

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