TO GROW
FASTER AND HEALTHIER
TOWARD SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
As the world’s population nearly reaches 10 billion in the year 2050, global crop production will need to double to meet the projected demands for food, feed, fiber, biochemicals, and phytomedicines. We at AFINGEN® are an agriculture biotechnology company aiming to enhance crop production and meet the natural resource demand in a new sustainable manner.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Ai Oikawa, Ph.D.
CEO/CSO
Ai Oikawa, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO/CSO of AFINGEN® and has been developing new plant biotechnology platforms for sustainable food, feed, fiber, and fuel production. Her research has been awarded by Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to improve global food security and environmental sustainability. After receiving a Ph.D. in Agricultural Bioprocess Engineering, she spent a year at Yale University as a visiting scholar for Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) for Biochemistry and Computational System Biology. She also joined the Harvard Business School Agribusiness Executive Program and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) School of Law, Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Education Program, for Technology Integration and Commercialization.
Carolyn Fritz, M.B.A
Kenneth Davenport, Ph.D.
ADVISORS
Keith Newhouse, Ph.D.
Bill Shelander, M.B.A.
LATEST NEWS
AFINGEN was introduced in ABPDU partners map on DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)’s article
Source: https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/articles/abpdu-celebrates-successes-and-its-50th-industry-partner The ABPDU serves as a scale-up testbed for collaborators developing technologies that transform raw materials—such as plants and waste—into sustainable...
AFINGEN was introduced in TechAccel Ag Biotech Market Map: Stunning growth in Ag Biotech Market investments
Source: https://techaccel.net/2020/03/26/stunning-growth-in-ag-biotech-market-investments/ Two years ago, we shared a map of the Ag Biotech Market that showed 245 startups working in plant and animal biotechnology. Since that original map, we’ve continued to track the...
AFINGEN’s new patent-pending APFL technology was published on World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): WO2019148193
Source: WO2019148193 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING PLANT GROWTH AND IMPROVING MULTIPLE YIELD-RELATED TRAITS The present invention relates to genetic constructs and transgenic plants with vascular xylem tissue-targeting overexpression of transcription...