Daan is Chief Technology Officer at Meatable, an innovative food technology company on a mission to satisfy the world’s appetite for meat without harming people, animals or the planet. The company is executing on its goal to deliver cultivated meat at scale that looks like, tastes like and has the nutritional profile of farm raised meat. Prior to co-founding Meatable, Daan worked with Maastricht University Professor Mark Post on the world’s first laboratory-grown hamburger in 2013. He later joined New Harvest, an NGO funding academic research in cultured meat, as the research director where he recognized the huge gap in Europe when it comes to cellular agriculture and cultured meat, leading to the founding of Meatable.

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