Professor Wendy Harwood

Professor Wendy Harwood is an Emeritus Fellow at the John Innes Centre (JIC), Norwich. Until December 2023, she was Head of the Crop Transformation Group at JIC where she also managed the BRACT Crop Transformation / Genome Editing Platform. She gained a BSc in Biological Sciences from King’s College, University of London and a PhD in Plant Biotechnology from the John Innes Institute / University of East Anglia. Wendy’s expertise includes genetic modification (GM) technologies in a range of crop species and the development and application of genome editing technologies in crops. She has experience of field trials and regulatory issues concerning GM and genome edited plants.

Professor Harwood has lectured at both the Universities of East Anglia and Cambridge; is an Honorary Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia and holds a Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professor Harwood served on the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on Animal Feeding stuffs (ACAF) from 2013 – 2019 and was seconded to the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) in 2019.

Register of interests

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