Shijie Ding is the co-founder and CEO of Joes Future Food. He is the first Ph.D. in cultured meat field in the world. As a student of Prof. Mark Post, and Prof. Zhou Guanghong, he graduated from Maastricht University.
Dr. Shijie Ding was the core members in developing China’s first cultured meat in 2019. With over a decade of dedicated research in cultured meat, he devoted himself to seed cell scale production and cultured meat Industrial development.
Under the leadership of Dr. Ding, the team has made significant breakthroughs in seed stem cell isolation and maintenance, cell suspension amplification, serum-free medium and products R&D, etc., achieving key technological breakthroughs.
Back in 1931, Winston Churchill dreamed of eating chicken without having to raise it. More than 90 years later, harvesting meat with a single cell in a lab is possible. Welcome to the world of cultivated meat. Joes Future, Meatable, and Aleph Farms tell you what each technological breakthrough means and what "the future of the meat" means!
Cultured meat has accelerated globally this year. However, competition is no more limited to tank capacity. Nutritional customization is now made possible for cultured meat. Customized lean-to-fat ratio? Yes! Customized flavors of fat? Yes! Customized content of saturated fat? Yes! This technology breakthrough has not only accelerated cultured meat but also every fat-related category!