A high value opportunity for vertical farming

A high value opportunity for vertical farming

As technologies emerge that enable a wide range of naturally occurring medicinal compounds to be reproduced by a host plant within a controlled environment, is it time to review the use of plants as biofactories? Innovation facilitators Agri-TechE are partnering with the life-sciences network OneNucleus to explore the market potential of using plant factories to mass produce rare drugs.

Contributing his expertise to the workshop is Malcolm Skingle, Director of Academic Liaison at GSK, who has seen the evolution of natural products over many years. GSK has dipped in and out of plant-derived pharmaceuticals and used alkaloids as starting points for novel chemistry programmes.

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