Based in London, Hoxton Farms is cultivating a revolution. As increasing numbers of start-ups seek to meet the soaring demand for producing meat alternatives, Hoxton Farms are addressing the need to include fat, a key ingredient that gives meat most of its flavour, in cultivated meat products. Hoxton Farms combine cell biology and mathematical modelling to make a better kind of fat. Starting from just a few cells, they grow purified animal fat in bioreactors to produce a delicious, cruelty-free and sustainable ingredient.
Max Jamilly, a former PhD student of Synthetic Biology at Oxford University , is the Co-Founder of Hoxton Farms. Max is an experienced biotech entrepreneur with deep technical expertise in synthetic biology having worked at two of the UK's leading biotech VCs on projects including cell and gene therapy, next-gen DNA sequencing and synthesis, and AI-driven drug discovery. Additionally, he has mentored biotech startups in London and Oxford, founded a podcast on CRISPR, and been interviewed about syn bio on BBC Radio!
During this talk, Max will speak on the cellular agriculture industry, introducing the state of the industry and emerging challenges for start-ups to overcome to reach commercialisation. We look forward to hearing how Hoxton Farms is innovating within the cellular agricultural space by producing animal fat, without using animals, to improve the overall quality and taste of cellular agriculture products!
