![]() The annual New Harvest Conference is the first and oldest cellular agriculture conference. New Harvest's first Dissertation Award was given to Mike McLellan in early 2020. ![]() Dissertation Award ĭissertation Awards are given by New Harvest to graduate students in their final year of study. One example of a project it supported was the development of the world's first cultured hamburger by Mark Post's Maastricht University team. Grantees are typically at the undergraduate level, with projects lasting three to six months. Seed Grants are awarded by New Harvest to short-term cellular agriculture projects. A number of New Harvest Fellows have been involved in the establishment of new cellular agriculture startups, such as Daan Luining and Mark Kotter who co-founded Meatable. Projects have ranged from development of serum-free growth medium to bioreactor design to establishment of new cell lines. Since its establishment in 2015, New Harvest Fellows spanning six countries have been responsible for most of the organization's research output. New Harvest's Fellowship Program funds graduate and postdoctoral Fellows participating in cellular agriculture research. Isha Datar coined the term " cellular agriculture" (often shortened to "cell ag") in a New Harvest Facebook group in 2015. Since 2014, New Harvest has helped found two start-up companies- Perfect Day and The EVERY Company-created new grant programs, and shifted from their animal rights roots to a more sustainability-based outlook. ![]() Īfter Datar's appointment, New Harvest's focus grew to include other animal commodities like milk and eggs, that could be produced by biotechnology rather than livestock. However, when Canadian molecular and cell biology student Isha Datar published a paper about the possibilities of cultured meat and sent it to him for feedback, Matheny hired her, and in 2012 appointed her as executive director of New Harvest. Despite many efforts in helping organize European conferences and events to raise awareness about cultured meat and attract investors, Matheny made little progress as he was running the organization alone. In 2005, their research was published in the journal Tissue Engineering which generated considerable public and scientific interest in New Harvest. He contacted several of the cited authors and teamed up with three-a tissue engineer, cell biologist and animal scientist-to consider the viability of producing cultured meat on a large scale. When Matheny returned to the States, he read about a NASA-funded project that "grew" goldfish meat to explore food possibilities for astronauts on long-range space missions. In the course of his research, he toured a poultry farm outside Delhi where he saw "tens of thousands of chickens in a metal warehouse, doped with drugs, living in their own manure and being bred for production traits that caused them to be immune-compromised." He said the experience made him recognize the need for a new way to meet a global demand for meat that is "exponentially growing" in even a traditionally vegetarian country like India. Matheny became interested in cultured meat after researching infectious diseases (HIV prevention) in India for a master's degree in public health. In 2004, New Harvest was co-founded by Johns Hopkins researcher Jason Matheny to fund academic research into the use of cell cultures, instead of live animals, to grow meat. History A video by New Harvest / Xprize narrated by Isha Datar on the development of cultured meat and a "post-animal bio-economy, driven by lab grown protein (meat, eggs, milk)" It also organizes annual conference where it connects scientists, entrepreneurs, and other interested parties in the biosciences and food security fields. New Harvest funds university-based research to develop breakthroughs in cellular agriculture, such as new culture media formulations, bioreactors, and methods of tissue assembly for the production of cultured meat. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit was established in 2004 and is the longest running cellular agriculture-based organization. Its research aims to resolve growing environmental and ethical concerns associated with industrial livestock production. New Harvest is a donor-funded research institute dedicated to the field of cellular agriculture, focusing on advances in scientific research efforts surrounding cultured animal products. Scott Banister, Karien Bezuidenhout, Vince Sewalt, John Pattison, Andras Forgacs
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