Two Blades Foundation

Two Blades Foundation is a crop research body that describes itself as "a US based charitable organization that supports programs of research and development on durable disease resistance". Two Blades Foundation has linked up with the Sainsbury Laboratory, as the Sainsbury Laboratory website says, "to solve crop disease problems using state-of-the-art technologies". It is clear from the Sainsbury Laboratory website that what is meant is the genetic engineering of wheat against rust disease.

People

Management and Directors

As at June 2010:

• Dr. Roger Freedman - chair. According to his biography on the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative website:

Roger Freedman works for David Sainsbury, the settlor of the Gatsby Foundation and until recently the UK Minister of Science and Innovation. Dr. Freedman established the Gatsby Foundation's programs in plant science and neuroscience and continues to serve the Foundation's much expanded plant science program. He has been a member of the governing council of the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich since its establishment, and he is now working on the establishment of a second Sainsbury Laboratory for Plant Science which will be located in Cambridge. He initiated development of JICI (now PBL), the technology licensing company based at the John Innes Centre, remaining as a non-executive director of the company for the first ten years of its operation.

• Dr. Diana Horvath
• Susan Nycum
• Dr. Michael Pauly
• Dr. Eric Ward

Science Advisory Board

As at June 2010:

• Prof. Jeff Dangl
• Dr. Jeff Ellis
• Prof. Jonathan Jones - also senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory of the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich, UK. He is on the advisory board of Mendel Biotechnology.
• Prof. Sophien Kamoun - also project leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory of the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich, UK.
• Prof. Paul Schulze-Lefert - also group leader at the Sainsbury Laboratory of the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich, UK, 1995-2000. Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne.
• Prof. Brian Staskawicz

Affiliations

• Sainsbury Laboratory - in partnership with them (see above)

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