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DiverGen is a farm, located in Tamerieh village in Marjeoun-South Lebanon, founded by Dr. Mazen K. El Tamer during Lebanon’s 2019 revolution and is dedicated to positively impacting the quality of Human food and health. Mazen is a Lebanese-Dutch agriculture engineer that graduated in 2002 from Wageningen University (The Netherlands) with a PhD in biotechnology. With a large exposure to an academic and multi-cultural environment, Mazen specializes in tissue culture, gene cloning, biochemical engineering and their applications. As an initiator of creativity, innovation and advanced productivity, his research area primarily focused on agriculture biotechnology using its multidisciplinary tools, starting from DNA cloning and editing of encoded enzymes involved in the production of taste and smell chemicals in plants. In parallel, focused on enhancing Global food security, he helped elucidate the developmental program of somatic embryos for plant multiplication through cutting-edge tissue culture techniques. Then, in order to ensure a healthy quality of life for the elderly, he helped develop a chemical screening system to isolate plant chemicals potentially leading to the treatment of taste and smell disorders in old age. Later on, his studies at the molecular level contributed to the elucidation, isolation and activation of stem cells for the repair of Human heart muscle, bone and brain tissues in-vivo.