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Dirk Inzé Portrait
Genome editing has the potential to make a critical contribution to make food systems more sustainable and more resilient to climate change.

Dirk Inzé

Full Professor at Ghent University, Scientific Director of the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and Coordinator of the EU-SAGE (European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing) network

European Union is at a breaking point to establish how it is going to reach the targets outlined in the Green Deal. I am convinced that genome editing has the potential to make a critical contribution in the coming years to make food systems more sustainable and more resilient to climate change.