Dr. Ven Subbiah has twenty years of research and development experience in natural products at various international corporations, as well as academia. Dr. Subbiah founded the PhytoMyco Research Corporation in Greenville, North Carolina in 1999 and established a research and development laboratory for natural products and added a plant processing facility with quality control facilities. Dr. Subbiah also currently holds Adjunct Professor positions at the Department of Biology at East Carolina University and at the Faculty of Agriculture at North Carolina State University.