Plant Biology Institute
Feeding the world’s growing population in the face of climate change by enabling every farm on earth to produce more food with fewer resources and less land.
Professor Lee Sweetlove
Lee Sweetlove is Senior Group Leader of Plant Cell-BasedProduction at EIT, leading a research team aiming to produce medicines and foodproducts sustainably and at scale in plant cells in culture, thereby uncouplingproduction from land use and climate.
Lee is also Professor of Plant Sciences at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford and retains a role in the university as a SeniorResearch Fellow. His research focuses on the metabolic networks that underpin plant growth, productivity, and resilience, integrating systems biology, computational modelling, and experimental biochemistry to understand how plants allocate and use carbon and energy.
He also provides advisory services for the agri-tech sectorand currently has a regular consultancy with MOA Technology, a herbicidediscovery company on the Oxford Science Park.
When he is not working, you’ll find Lee out on his bike.
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The PBI team aims to improve global food production and biosphere health through advances in plant science research. Our work integrates cutting-edge technologies spanning AI and synthetic biology with advanced genome editing to develop climate resilient plants. The goal is to produce more food from less land using fewer resources, such as nitrogen fertilisers. By combining fundamental research with applied innovation, we can accelerate the translation of discoveries into scalable agricultural solutions. In doing so, we lay the foundation for a more resilient and regenerative agricultural future that benefits both people and the planet.
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