SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Catherine A. Ricks served as Vice President of Research and Development at Embrex, an Agricultural Biotechnology company, from 1989 - 2006. As a key member of the senior management team, she developed and implemented corporate strategy to commercialize in ovo technology. Dr Ricks built, organized, and directed a multidisciplinary R&D organization to develop innovative in ovo delivery, diagnostic systems and in ovo biological products for the global poultry industry; collective senior management team efforts resulting in a paradigm shift in poultry hatchery production with in ovo vaccination technology adopted by 85% of the US; with 40% adoption worldwide. From 1979 to 1989, she served in various scientific management positions including Manager, Animal Industry Discovery American Cyanamid building the first biotechnology effort at the company. Dr Ricks served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Poultry Science at North Carolina State University [NCSU] from 1980 - 2005 and as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Animal Science at Rutgers University from 1985 - 1990. She is the author of 33 scientific publications, 14 published symposia proceedings, 75 abstracts, an inventor on 4 patents and the recipient of the YWCA award for achievement in business. She served on the NCSU graduate advisory board 1995 - 2000, and currently serves on multiple boards including the Poultry Science Association Board 2003 - 2006 and Poultry Science Foundation Board. Dr Ricks obtained her Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry, Dairy Science from Michigan State University, her M. Phil Plant Physiology and B.Sc. in botany from King's College, London University.