Event description

The 7th Industrializing Cultivated Meat & Seafood Summit is the premier gathering focused on the bioprocessing breakthroughs enabling cultivated meat and seafood to scale. This year’s summit will feature GFI Principal Scientist Elliot Swartz, Ph.D., whose research spans bioprocess design and cost modeling for cultivated meat.

Elliot will speak on the panel “R&D Innovations that Enhance Performance and Reduce Cost,” where participants will examine:

  • The quantities of individual amino acids needed for large-scale cultivated meat production.
  • The anticipated cost contributions of amino acids in the production process.
  • Strategies to address supply constraints and explore alternative sourcing options, such as protein hydrolysates.

Elliot’s work highlights how science can remove the bottlenecks to scaling cultivated meat. By advancing open-access research and collaboration across the field, we can strengthen food security, expand consumer choice, and accelerate the shift toward a more resilient global food system.

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Elliot swartz

Elliot Swartz, Ph.D.

SENIOR PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST, CULTIVATED MEAT

Elliot’s work at GFI focuses on analyzing the technical and economic bottlenecks facing the cultivated meat industry, identifying opportunities to accelerate the industry, and educating scientists, the public, and other industry stakeholders. For the past five years, Elliot has worked on projects ranging from food safety and environmental impact to in-depth analysis of the cultivated meat value chain. Elliot holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he worked with induced pluripotent stem cells to model neuromuscular disease.

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