About

Dr. Howard has over 30 years of experience in directing biotechnology groups in research, regulatory, production, intellectual property, and business development for two Fortune 500 companies and two start-up companies. In addition to leading efforts for several technological innovations, he also directed the commercial introduction of the first plant biotechnology products for crop improvement and the first industrial products produced from transgenic plants. He is an author/inventor with over 200 publications and patents in biotechnology.  Dr. Howard President of Applied Biotechnology Institute, a company focused on providing early-stage research and development for plant biotechnology products targeted to industrial and pharmaceutical markets with minimal risk. Prior to ABI, Dr. Howard was the CEO of ProdiGene, a biotechnology company focused on biopharmaceuticals and industrial products from plants. Before ProdiGene, Dr. Howard was a director at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., where he developed a program to develop and produce recombinant protein products from plants for crop improvement and industrial applications. He began his career at Stauffer Chemical Company in Richmond, California from 1978 to 1987, where he initiated and directed a biotechnology research program focused on developing biotechnology methods that led to the first reports of transformed corn and sunflower. Dr. Howard received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Riverside.