Join our Working Session in San Francisco: Developing an Action Plan for Cultured Meat Safety Research

We are excited to announce the details for the next working session in our ongoing series on the safety of cultured meat: March 2025 CMSI Working Session:Developing an Action Plan for Cultured Meat Safety Research  Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm PDT (during the week of Future Food-Tech San Francisco) San Francisco, California, USA Lunch and coffee will be provided, and the session will be followed by a networking hour (details to come). Interested workshop participants must apply to attend.

Apply to join this session here

This session aims 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).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 and have expertise in either CM or food safety, this workshop is for you.

Learn more about the full series here

This session is part of an ongoing series hosted by New Harvest and Vireo Advisors as part of the Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI) and Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Additional dates and locations will be announced soon.If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!Hope to see you there!Dr. Bre DuffyDirector of Responsible Research & Innovation, USAbreanna@new-harvest.org | New Harvest 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. Many thanks to Wildtype for providing a venue space for this conversation.