Isha Datar
| Isha Datar | |
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| Born | January 1, 1988 |
| 🏫 Education | |
| 💼 Occupation | Executive Director of New Harvest |
| 🏢 Organization | New Harvest |
| 🌐 Website | New Harvest Profile |
Isha Datar is the Executive Director of New Harvest. She is credited for coining the term "cellular agriculture" and is recognized for her contributions to the field, particularly with her publishing of "Possibilities for an in-vitro meat production system," the growth of New Harvest’s Fellowship Program, and the cofounding of Muufri (now Perfect Day) and Clara Foods (now The EVERY Company). Datar was also an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow.[1]
Early life and education
Datar was raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[2][3] Her mother worked at a dairy farm, where Datar spent much of her childhood growing vegetables alongside her mother. Her mother was also a sculptor and her father was a doctor.[4] After an elementary school field trip to a landfill, she became invested in reducing global waste and the impact of climate change.[2] Datar attended the University of Alberta, from where she received a B.S. in Cell & Molecular Biology in 2009.[3][5][6] During her time as an undergraduate, Datar took a meat science class that challenged her idealistic vision of the sustainability of the animal agriculture industry and introduced her to cellular agriculture as a possible alternative.[7] Datar received her M.Biotech in Biotechnology from the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2013.[3][5][6]
Career
In 2009, Datar published "Possibilities for an in-vitro meat production system" in Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, which detailed the progress of cellular agriculture.[5][4] The paper was sent to Jason Matheny - founder and then-director of New Harvest - who forwarded the paper to those who were mentioned in it.[5][8] Before ending up at New Harvest herself in 2013, Datar held a public policy co-op at GlaxoSmithKline during her graduate degree.[6]
New Harvest
Datar became Executive Director of New Harvest in 2013.[2][3][9] In 2015, Datar was coined the term "cellular agriculture" (often shortened to "cell ag") in a New Harvest Facebook group to describe the process of creating lab grown animal products.[10][11][12] While Executive Director of New Harvest, Datar was a Shuttleworth Fellow in 2016. After her fellowship and the hiring of former New Harvest Research Director Kate Kruger, the two worked to create the New Harvest Fellowship Program to mirror that of the Shuttleworth Foundation and to ensure continuous funding of research.[5][9]
In September 2016, Datar spoke at the United States Department of Agriculture meeting on Biotechnology & 21st Century Agriculture (AC21).[13]
In 2021, Robert Downey Jr. funded Datar's work through his 'fast grants' project.[14]
Startups
Datar's work focused on community building, which created enough venture capital interest in cellular agriculture for Datar to found Muufri (now Perfect Day) - alongside Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi - and Clara Foods (now The EVERY Company) - alongside Arturo Elizondo and David Anchel - in 2014.[3][5][8][9][1] However, wanting to support general cellular agriculture research instead of a specific product, Datar ultimately gave her equity in both companies to New Harvest to create a cellular agriculture endowment.[5] As of 2021, Perfect Day had received over $700 million in funding[15] and The EVERY Company had received over $50 million.[16]
Awards and honors
Datar has been profiled in multiple media venues including USA Today (2014)[17] and the magazine Toronto Life (2019),[18] the Calgary Herald.[19] She has spoken with NPR's Science Friday,[20] The New Republic,[21] Food & Wine magazine,[22] and the National Observer.[23]
In 2016, Datar was named one of 12 women leading the life sciences movement in Silicon Valley by TechCrunch.com,[24] and Canadian Business spotlighted her work as a 2016 Change Agent.[25]
In 2019, Datar was named one of 25 Food and Agriculture Leaders to Watch by FoodTank.com[26].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Isha Datar: Director's Fellow". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wong, Kristine. "Isha Datar is Creating a Path Forward for Alternative Animal Protein". Food & Wine. Meredith Corporation. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Hui, Ann. "Milk's next frontier: Lab-made food could change the way we eat – and it's quickly becoming a reality". The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Palet, Laura Secorun. "ISHA DATAR CAN GROW YOUR STEAK IN A LAB". ozy.com. OZY. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 McGivern, Chris (October 2019). "Isha Datar: New Harvest and the Post-Animal Bioeconomy". Shuttleworth Foundation. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Isha Datar | Master of Biotechnology". University of Toronto Mississauga. University of Toronto Mississauga. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ↑ Treleaven, Sarah (July 2016). "MS. CHATELAINE: Isha Datar". Chatelaine. Vol. 89 no. 7. St. Joseph Communications. p. 16. Retrieved August 2, 2021.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Shapiro, Paul (2018). Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World. Gallery Books. Search this book on
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Smith, Allison. "Conversation with Isha Datar, Executive Director of New Harvest". Animal Charity Evaluators. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ↑ Crosser, Nate. "Cellular agriculture landscape". Fifth Industrial.
- ↑ Solano, Brittany. "New Harvest 2019: Envisioning a food system built around cells, not animals". Ag Funder News.
- ↑ "Useful Resources". Cellular Agriculture Australia.
- ↑ "Biotechnology & 21st Century Agriculture". www.usda.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
- ↑ LANG, ROBERT DOWNEY JR AND DAVID (2021-12-15). "Robert Downey Jr.: Here's how to accelerate discoveries to help the planet". Fast Company. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
- ↑ "Perfect Day". Crunchbase. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ↑ "Clara Foods". Crunchbase. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ↑ Palet, Laura Securon (June 10, 2014). "Growing meat … in the lab". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2022-01-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Fraser, Ashley (2019-11-07). "This woman wants to make chickenless eggs and cowless milk". Toronto Life. Retrieved 2022-01-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Stephenson, Amanda (October 19, 2020). "As industry begins to take off, Alberta researchers working on lab-grown meat". calgaryherald. Retrieved 2022-01-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "What Is The Future Of Meat?". Science Friday. November 27, 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Aronoff, Kate; Dutkiewicz, Jan; Rosenberg, Gabriel N.; Dutkiewicz, Jan; Rosenberg, Gabriel N.; Martin, Nick; Martin, Nick; Republic, The New; Republic, The New (2021-09-29). "Lab to Table". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
- ↑ Wong, Kristine (May 24, 2017). "Isha Datar is Creating a Path Forward for Alternative Animal Protein". Food & Wine. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2022-01-02. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "How We Eat". Canada's National Observer. 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
- ↑ Buhr, Sarah. "https://techcrunch.com/gallery/gettoknowthemfortheloveofscience/". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 6 December 2021. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ Castaldo, Joe (October 13, 2016). "Change Agents 2016: Isha Datar, New Harvest". Canadian Business. Archived from the original on March 12, 2023. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
- ↑ Dion, Barth. "25 Food and Agriculture Leaders to Watch in 2019". FoodTank. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
External links
- Re-Thinking Meat: Isha Datar at TEDxToronto on YouTube, April 27, 2013
Category:Biological engineering Category:Meat
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