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Dr. Anderson has over 25 years of agrochemical experience and has discovered two successful commercial products. His most recent appointment was Director of Chemistry for AffyAgro, a unit of Affymax Research Institute (July 1998 through July 2001). He began his formal education at the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology where he received a Bachelors degree in Chemistry and continued his chemistry studies at Stanford receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry under the guidance of Dr. Eugene van Tamelen. During his doctoral studies, he began a relationship with Zoecon Corporation, an entrepreneurial venture founded by Dr. Carl Djerassi to develop novel insect control agents based on a biorational research approach. His early research efforts on insect growth regulators, insect pheromones, and pyrethroids resulted in numerous patents and scientific publications, and the discovery of the commercial insecticide tau-fluvalinate. As a section leader and assistant department head, Dr. Anderson initiated a highly successful chemical herbicide research program at Zoecon/Sandoz that led to the discovery of 10 new chemistries with developmental potential as herbicides. His discovery of the herbicidal semicarbazones that combine synergistically with auxin agonists resulted in the commercialization of diflufenzopyr. In 1990 as manager of herbicide research, he assumed responsibility for all Sandoz Agro chemical and formulation herbicide research and greenhouse biological evaluation in North America. Following the Novartis merger in 1997, Dr. Anderson accomplished the successful technology transfer of several herbicide projects to the Basel research group and served as assistant to the Director of Research. He is an inventor on 46 issued patents and is an author on 27 scientific publications. | 