New Harvest and Vireo Advisors are launching a cultured meat safety working session series for 2024-2025 to formally kick off Phase 3 of the Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI)!
Funded 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), the working sessions aim to foster collaboration amongst individuals interested in actively working on or advising cultured meat and seafood safety research. Working sessions will identify steps for conducting collaborative and pre-competitive research to address cultured meat safety priorities, which were outlined in our previous publications (Ong et al. 2021, Ong et al. 2023).
The working sessions will be held in 2024 and 2025:
December 12, 2024 – Austin, Texas: Co-sponsored by and co-located with the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting.
March 2025 – Davis, California: In collaboration with the University of California Davis Integrative Center for Alternative Meat and Protein (iCAMP) during the week of Future Food-Tech San Francisco (March 13-14). The exact date & location will be announced soon.
April 28, 2025 – Chicago, Illinois: Co-located with the Future of Protein Chicago (April 29-30).
Application is required to attend!
Learn more and attend here!
Experts and researchers in food safety, toxicology, biomanufacturing, cell biology, food science, and other related fields are encouraged to apply! Prior experience in cultured meat safety research is not required to participate in the working sessions. If you are interested in working on cultured meat safety, this workshop is for you!
Participants may attend one or more working sessions. 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.
