Experience for the long horizon.

Tony Mercer

Four decades of leadership in biological resilience, translational medicine and adaptive agriculture. Tony founded NUMUN to move critical biological research beyond the laboratory and into the communities confronting environmental change first.

Recipient of the Global Food Continuity Medal and the Aster Foundation Humanitarian Science Award.

“The future of civilization is biological. Our responsibility is to make that future livable.”

Dr. Elise Mercer

A next-generation geneticist whose work joins seed resilience, water-efficient development and biological preservation. Dr. Mercer leads NUMUN’s cross-division scientific review and open research partnerships.

“A discovery matters when it survives the distance between a laboratory and a life.”