Calyxt, Inc. announced retirement of André Choulika from his position as Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors and as a director of the Company, effective immediately. The Board has appointed Yves J. Ribeill, Ph.D., as Chairman of the Board, effective immediately. Dr. Ribeill has more than 35 years of experience in the healthcare industry, with an expertise in anti-infective diseases including bacterial, fungal, viral and parasiticidal and in microbiome-centric diseases. Prior to moving to the U.S. 23 years ago, Dr. Ribeill held several management positions during his international career with Rhône-Poulenc and Aventis in France and in the UK. Dr. Ribeill was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization, the Medicines for Malaria Venture and is currently the CEO of Ribogenics, Inc., an early stage R&D company. In addition, the Calyxt Board of Directors appointed Laurent Arthaud, a member of Cellectis’ Board of Directors since 2011, as Director. Mr. Arthaud was designated to serve as a director by Cellectis, Calyxt’s parent company, pursuant to an existing Stockholders Agreement between Calyxt and Cellectis. Cellectis holds 68.9% of Calyxt shares as of December 31, 2019. Mr. Arthaud served as a member of Calyxt’s Board of Directors until May 2019 and is a member of Cellectis’ Board of Directors since 2011. Mr. Arthaud has been the Managing Director of Life Sciences and Ecotechnologies for Bpifrance Investissement (formerly CDC Enterprises, a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts) since 2012.
Cibus, Inc. is an agricultural technology company that uses gene editing technologies to develop plant traits in seeds. Its business is the development of plant traits that help address specific productivity or yield challenges in farming, such as traits addressing plant agronomy, disease, insects, weeds, nutrient-use, or the climate. It is also engaged in developing, certain alternative plant-based oils or bio-based fermentation products. Its technology is its gene editing platform called the Rapid Trait Development System (RTDS). It is the underlying technology in the Company's Trait Machine process, an end-to-end semi-automated high-throughput gene editing system that directly edits seed companies' elite germplasm. It has a pipeline of five productivity traits, four of which are applicable to multiple crops. These traits are PSR in Canola and HT1 and HT3 in rice. In addition, it also has two advanced traits for Sclerotinia resistance and another novel broadleaf HT trait, HT2.
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