Kevin Moore has joined Iowa State University to serve as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Biobased Products, part of the State of Iowa’s Biosciences-based economic growth initiative. Moore’s role will focus on serving as a conduit between research and industry. CBiRC’s Brent Shanks (Biobased Products Platform Lead) and Iowa State researchers, as well as BioConnect Iowa CEO and staff, will work closely with Moore to help identify promising emerging technologies and facilitate their development into commercial products.
Moore replaces Sundeep Vani, who served as the Biobased Products CTO before recently accepting a role that returned him to industry. Moore is one of three CTOs serving the overall Biosciences innovation ecosystem at Iowa State, joining colleagues Nadilia Gomez and Michael Roof, CTOs for the Digital and Precision Agriculture and Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics platforms, respectively. Read ISU Office of the Vice President for Research news release… (Dan Kirkpatrick, 02/07/2022)