Denise Manker

Denise Manker joined Bayer Crop Science in 2012 with the acquisition of AgraQuest. She is globally responsible for advising farmers, distributors and crop advisors on best use practices with biological products and is one of Bayer’s Distinguished Science Fellows. As one of AgraQuest’s founding scientists, her roles included head of R&D, oversight of global field trials involving biological products, guiding key crop strategies and managing numerous collaborations. She is an inventor on 36 U.S. patents and has received the EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Award for development of Serenade. Her Ph.D. is in natural products chemistry from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.