Nandini Krishnamurthy Elected to Grand View Board of Trustees

November 14, 2024

Nandini Krishnamurthy has joined the Grand View University Board of Trustees. Nandini is a technology strategist and is currently Director, External Technologies Portfolio for Biotechnology at Corteva. She identifies strategic technology opportunities for investments in areas such as genome editing, that can create a stepchange in future product development. She is also involved in strategic partnerships with industry, non-profit organizations and academia to realize the value of genome editing for society.

Nandini brings over 15 years of experience in technical, commercial, and strategic leadership roles spanning agricultural biotechnology and microbial synthetic biology industries. Prior to joining Corteva, Nandini led the Applications Development team at Inscripta and helped commercialize a cutting-edge platform for massively parallel genome engineering of microbes. She has served on the Board of Napigen, a startup developing technology for organellar genome editing. She has held various positions at DuPont-Pioneer, Genentech, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Rockefeller University. Nandini holds a doctorate degree in plant biology from Texas A&M University.

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