Bayer’s Grants4Ag Program awards funding for 21 new crop science research proposals

MONHEIM/Germany, 27 January 2022: Bayer has announced its 2022 cohort of Grants4Ag grant recipients who were chosen to receive awards ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 Euros to help them complete research on challenges facing agriculture.

21 proposals make up this year’s Grants4Ag awardees with research goals including reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint, understanding social factors that influence innovation adoption, and improving the drought tolerance of plants in the face of more frequent extreme weather events.

“Bayer is the leader in agriculture research and development, but it’s very clear that given the complexity of the challenges farmers face around the world, we can’t solve every problem on our own,” Phil Taylor, Open Innovation Lead for Bayer’s Crop Science Division said.

“We were thrilled at the quality of this year’s submissions and we’re looking forward to working with each of the grant recipients,” Taylor adds.

As part of Bayer’s Open4Ag initiative Bayer’s Grants4Ag awardees retain all intellectual property rights to their research, and in addition to financial support successful researchers will also be paired with one of Bayer’s own scientists to provide project guidance as their research progresses. Through this commitment to partnership, and with support from innovation partnering platform Halo, Bayer received more than 350 proposals from researchers around the world during a five-week submission window this past fall.

“Bayer’s Grants4Ag program is an amazing opportunity for my research, and I was very pleased to have been chosen as a grant recipient,” Amy Lemay of Brock University said.

“Grants4Ag offers not only financial support, but also provides access to leading scientists at Bayer and mentorship opportunities that will help me to understand challenges and tactics that can further develop my research,” Lemay stressed.

Check the full list of 2022 Grants4Ag awardees

Eric Bishop-Von-Wettberg – The University of Vermont

Marcelo Berretta – National Agricultural Technology Institute

Siobhan Brady – UC Davis

Phil Brewer – The University of Adelaide

Alexandre ten Caten – Federal University of Santa Catarina

Jonathan Claussen – Iowa State University

Andrea Clavijo – AGROSAVIA

Michelle Dunstone – Monash University

Eva Farre – Michigan State University

Hailing Jin – UC Riverside

Ari Kambouris – Sinafis

Franz J. Kurfess – California Polytechnic State University

Rim Lassoued – University of Saskatchewan

Amy Lemay – Brock University

Jiarui Li – Innatrix Inc.

Pengfei Liu – China Agricultural University

Cristian Malavert – University of Buenos Aires

Anna E. Whitfield – NC State University

Ce Yang – University of Minnesota

Feng Zhang – Nanjing Agricultural University

Ji Zhou – National Institute of Agricultural Botany