Isha Datar
Executive Director
New Harvest
Isha Datar is the Executive Director of New Harvest, a nonprofit working on developing food from cells. Isha coined the term “cellular agriculture” to describe agricultural products produced from cell cultures rather than whole plants and animals. Through her work she cofounded two of the world’s first cellular agriculture companies and funded 60 of the first cellular agriculture researchers. Today, she works to accelerate scientific breakthroughs and steward technology to serve the public good.
Schedule
25 mins
St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts - Bluma Appel Theatre
Tasting Tomorrow with Cell-Cultivated Eats and Fishless Fish
From the land to the lab, the future of food is being reimagined. Learn how breakthroughs in cellular agriculture and plant-based innovations are setting the stage for a new and resilient food system, reshaping how we think about and experience food for the next 50+ years.
