BioCentury
ARTICLE | Strategy

New shoots for old roots

June 1, 1998 7:00 AM UTC

The renaissance in agricultural biotechnology has lured agbio veteran Jerry Caulder into heading a new company formed by AxyS Pharmaceuticals Inc. and funded by Bay City Capital, a merchant bank whose partners include another veteran agbio player, former Calgene Inc. CEO Roger Salquist.

Another Bay City partner, Affymetrix Inc. Chairman John Diekman, was CEO of agbio pioneer Zoecon, which was spun out of Syntex in 1969 and is now a part of Novartis...