Mary-Dell Chilton earns World Food Prize for pioneering plant genetics research at WUSTL (Washington University in Saint Louis)

(Source: Washington University in Saint Louis) Article Body 2010 Mary-Dell Chilton, PhD, who did pioneering work on plant genetics during the 1970s and early 1980s while on the biology faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of three recipients of the 2013 World Food Prize, an honor often described as the "Nobel Prize of Biotechnology." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presided over aceremony June 19 where Chilton and the two other laureates, Robert T. Fraley, PhD, chief technology officer at St. Louis-based Monsanto,and Marc Van Montagu, PhD, of Belgiumwere named the 2013 laureates of the prestigious World Food Prize. The prize is the foremost international award recognizing...