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Agrotop team visits animal science center, Roslin Institute in Scotland
A team of Agrotop executives was invited by Roslin Technologies to visit them at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, which won world fame following its creation of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, considered one of the great scientific achievements of the late 20th century.
The Roslin Institute, together with its commercial arm Roslin Technologies, is Europe’s largest centre for animal science. Most of the pure research is carried out by the Roslin Institute, while Roslin Technologies looks for practical and commercial applications for the research.
The team, which included Agrotop CMO Gaby Pelleg, and business development manager Stanley Kaye, visited the Roslin Institute to learn more about the livestock husbandry at the institute’s farm and investigate future opportunities for cooperation.
Glen Illing, CEO of Roslin Technologies, told visitors that while a large part of global scientific research ended up filed away in libraries without being utilized, as the world population increased developing more efficient and sustainable food sources was of the highest priority.
“Besides the business aspects, the visit was an amazing eye opener,” said Kaye. “Improving food sources is, of course, a subject close to the Agrotop’s heart, and so it was good to see how this is being tackled from other perspectives.”
Huw Jones, Roslin Technologies’ chief technology officer, shared with the Agrotop delegation an interesting project, which deals with the establishment of a “bank” of reproductive material of bird species.
Huw said the aim of the project was to safeguard the future of rare bird species which may carry useful genetic information that makes them resistant to existing and future diseases.
