Professor Liam Dolan’s Moa Technologies is aiming for a slice of the estimated $5bn market for bioherbicides
Prof Liam Dolan spent 25 years at Oxford University where he continues to be a visiting professor
A start-up co-founded by a Dubliner and spun-out of Oxford University to tackle the problem of herbicide resistance has struck two deals since March that could potentially be worth hundreds of millions.
Moa Technologies, which Liam Dolan – who grew up on the Navan Road in Cabra – founded in 2017 along with research fellow Clément Champion, is developing a new generation of both natural and synthetic herbicides. Weeds that reduce crop yields are becoming increasingly resistant to existing weedkillers.
