Dr. Okjae Koo is the director of Plant and Animal Genome Editing division in Korea-based CRISPR/Cas9 company, ToolGen. He obtained DVM and PhD degrees from Seoul National University, Korea. During his career, he has focused on generating various transgenic and/or genome edited animals using various molecular tools such as ZFN, TALEN and CRISPR/Cas9. After joining ToolGen, he was also involved in various genome edited crop projects including high oleic acid soybean and pale purplish-pink colored petunia. He also co-founded the Ag-Tech startup, PLANTeDIT, based on DNA-free genome editing technology and is currently working on genome editing in hemp and microalgae.