Lansing-based Neogen Corporation, specializing in food and animal safety, has named Dr. Jennifer Rice as the company’s Senior Scientific Officer. In the newly created position, Rice will have responsibility for the overall direction of Neogen’s research activities, says CEO James Herbert.
“Dr. Rice brings outstanding experience and educational background to this new position. She has a good understanding of 
opportunities for future product development and the experience of managing global programs involving large groups of scientists and multiple product activities,” Herbert says.
Rice worked in the Department of Animal Health Global Product Development with Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, where she led a program to develop and license the first plant cell produced animal vaccine, and the only such vaccine to be approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
She also served as Director of Research and Development for Biocor Animal Health where she was responsible for all aspects of design and development for animal vaccines and diagnostic tests. Her team was responsible for the licensure of several bovine combination vaccines.
Rice spent five years with Merial, an animal health company based in the United Kingdom. From her Athens, Georgia office, she was Director of U.S. Biological Discovery and Development.
She is listed as an inventor in numerous patents and patent applications.
Neogen has also been added to the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 GICS Health Care Supplies Sub-Industry index.
Source: Neogen
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