Conference of Food Engineering (CoFE) 2024
Event description
The purpose of the Society of Food Engineering (SoFE) is the advancement of food engineering. Claire Bomkamp, GFI’s Senior Lead Scientist, Cultivated Meat & Seafood will speak on The Good Food Institute’s efforts to create a road map that can provide direction to the scientists and innovators who will ultimately make the technical breakthroughs needed to push cultivated meat into the mainstream. She will discuss learnings and specific needs that allow GFI to make data-driven recommendations to others in the cultivated meat ecosystem and to offer research grant opportunities that are closely aligned with the needs of the industry.
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Claire Bomkamp, Ph.D.
SENIOR LEAD SCIENTIST, CULTIVATED MEAT & SEAFOOD
Claire serves as Senior Lead Scientist, Cultivated Meat & Seafood and is a member of GFI’s Sustainable Seafood Initiative. She focuses on analyzing the technical landscape of the cultivated meat and seafood industry, identifying bottlenecks, and engaging researchers in order to move cultivated meat and seafood technology forward. She holds a PhD in neuroscience from the University of British Columbia and a bachelors in behavioral neuroscience from Western Washington University.
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