Roger Beachy Roger Beachy, Ph.D., is president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri. He previously held academic positions at Washington University, St. Louis and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. His research includes projects to reduce virus infection in plants via biotechnology, and in studies of control of gene expression in plants. Beachy is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Academy of Microbiology, among others; he has several awards for his work, including the Wolf Prize in Agriculture. The Danforth Center has committed significant effort to research in developing countries, including through private-public partnerships. Beachy is involved in a variety of efforts with regard to rationalizing regulations that control commercialization of agricultural biotechnology..