After quietly working on its technology for four years, Omeat is announcing its entry into the cultivated meat market, revealing an approach that reduces input costs and can be scaled to sustainably meet the global demand for beef and other types of animal protein. The process uses regenerative factors extracted humanely from healthy, living cows to derive growth media, the number one cost-driver of cultivated meat. The media can be used to cost-effectively grow any kind of meat, such as beef, pork, chicken or fish.
Omeat Founder & CEO Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D., is one of the top tissue engineers in the world. As Khademhosseini came to understand the challenges presented by conventional animal agriculture practices, he shifted focus from growing human tissues for medical applications to developing a scalable method for growing cultivated meat.