New Harvest and Vireo Advisors have launched a cultured meat safety working session series for 2024-2025 as part of Phase 3 of the Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI)!
Funded by the US National Science Foundation and the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the working sessions aim to foster collaboration amongst individuals interested in actively working on or advising cultured meat and seafood safety research.
We’re excited to announce the next session in this series, which will be held June 4, 2025 in Chicago, IL. The session will be hosted with in-kind support from Perkins Coie during the week of Future Food-Tech Chicago (June 2-3).
***Apply for the June session here!***
This session will again focus on identifying steps for conducting collaborative and pre-competitive research to address cultured meat and seafood safety priorities, which were outlined in our previous publications (Ong et al. 2021, Ong et al. 2023). This session will build upon the outcomes of the previous sessions while focusing on the specific priorities shared by participants in the room.
We are looking for experts and researchers in food safety, toxicology, biomanufacturing, cell biology, food science, and other related fields. Prior experience at the intersection of cultured meat and food safety research is not required, but technical expertise in a relevant subject area is highly encouraged.
Application is required to attend! Learn more and apply for a session here!
Travel support is available to a limited number of participants, with priority for early-career and under-represented researchers. Apply for travel support using the working session application form above.
If you have any questions or want to know how you can be involved in the Cultured Meat Safety Initiative, shoot me an email at breanna@new-harvest.org
Financial support for this working session series was provided by the US National Science Foundation (Grant No. 2417703) and the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI project 2024-07959). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.
