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Dr. Hunt is primarily responsible for contracts, licensing, and intellectual property matters at Cropsolution. As a member of the business development team at Cropsolution, she interfaces and negotiates relationships with potential research and licensing partners and, as a member of the investor relations team, works with investors to consummate financing rounds for the company. Prior to joining Cropsolution, she served as Director of Contracts and Licensing for Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. (SBI), and its predecessor entities, where she was responsible for the crop protection and seeds related transactional deal flow. Such activities included establishing in excess of 250 research related agreements with combinatorial chemistry companies, biotechnology companies, service providers and academic institutions, often in conjunction with the Crop Protection, Seeds or Pharma businesses of SBI or predecessor companies. Furthermore, in 1997 she became a registered patent agent. Dr. Hunt began her career in 1994 with Ciba-Geigy as a postdoctoral research associate where she studied systemic acquired resistance signal transduction using Arabidopsis as a model. She received her Ph.D. in plant breeding from Cornell University in 1994, where she was an NSF/DOE/USDA-funded Plant Science Center Fellow. She received B.S degrees in biology and botany in 1988, graduating with highest distinction and honors from Colorado State University. Dr. Hunt has authored more than 10 scientific publications and given numerous scientific presentations. | 