Spearhead Bio, a Danforth Center spinoff company, is one of 11 companies included on St. Louis Business Journal’s Startups to Watch 2026 list.
Keith Slotkin, PhD, chief scientific officer at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri Columbia, founded the company.
Spearhead Bio makes crop improvement faster, less expensive and more accurate through better genome editing.
