Aplantex
Mourad Sabri, PhD, currently serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at Aplantex since June 2019, where the science team focuses on innovative green biotechnology processes to produce commercially valuable phytochemicals. Previously, Mourad held the position of Chief Scientific Officer at Navaya Inc. from February 2019 to October 2020 and served as Senior Consultant Technical Lead at Méridien Maritime Réparation from December 2016 to January 2019. From February 2013 to December 2016, Mourad was the Chief Scientific Officer at SyntBioLab Inc. Educationally, Mourad completed a Postdoctoral research program in Microbiology, Virology, and Molecular Biology at Université Laval from 2008 to 2013 after studying at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique from 2001 to 2008.
Aplantex
Aplantex has been created by a team of entrepreneurs and scientific specialists after a careful validation of the technical concept first formulated in 2019. With the support of their academic and industrial partners, they are now aiming at producing a large catalog of high value plant-based active ingredients to be used within the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and agri-food markets. Their proprietary technology builds on the latest scientific developments in the "omics" field, with a practical, low cost and easily scalable industrial approach. By mastering, redirecting and optimizing the metabolism of their photosynthetic phytoreplicators, they are building the industrial capacity to supply the phytochemical ingredients' market with any valuable product required by their clients.