KeyGene announced Marcel van Verk as the vice president of crop data science starting April 1, 2023 according to a release. KeyGene is a research company working on developing innovative crop improvement technology. Van Verk is looking to increase the impact of AI and machine learning in relations to plant breeding. In his role, van Verk will integrate biological systems to find genes for plant breeding breakthroughs worldwide.
“We are very pleased to have Marcel van Verk assume leadership of KeyGene’s R&D in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence,” said Roeland van Ham, KeyGene’s appointed CEO from April 1, 2023. “In the past years, Marcel already played an important role in our Data Science department. Amongst other, he successfully led the development of KeyGene’s powerful data integration system ‘CropPedia’, which is now widely used in our industry. Marcel is a talented leader and he has the vision and the understanding of the needs of our customers to help crop improvement to be driven by data and computational technologies; farther, stronger, and in novel directions.”
“Artificial intelligence and data science, as in other fields, are rapidly becoming drivers of research in the life sciences.” said van Verk. “At KeyGene, we are turning these into green tools and technologies with which we create impactful innovations for crop improvement for our partner in the agro-food sector. I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to lead KeyGene’s data science activities and I’m ready to work with the talented team in our department in utilizing the enormous potential of these rapidly developing technologies.”
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