page_title: New Harvest
section_title: Executive Director
hierarchical_section_title: New Harvest / Organization / Executive Director
caption_attribution_description: Isha Datar, CEO of New Harvest
context_page_description: New Harvest is a donor-funded research institute dedicated to the field of cellular agriculture, focusing on advances in scientific research efforts surrounding cultured animal products. It highlights growing environmental and ethical concerns associated with industrial livestock production.
  The 501 non-profit was established in 2004. Today, New Harvest funds university-based research to develop breakthroughs in cellular agriculture, such as new culture media formulations, bioreactors, and methods of tissue assembly for the production of cultured meat.
  New Harvest organizes a yearly conference – among the first professional conferences related to cellular agriculture – where it connects scientists, entrepreneurs, and other interested parties in the biosciences and food security fields.
context_section_description: Isha Datar
  Datar holds a BSc. in Cell & Molecular Biology from the University of Alberta, where she contributed to Canada's first cultured meat laboratory, and an M.Biotech from the University of Toronto. Datar said she was inspired by a meat science course to explore the environmental consequences of livestock production. In 2010, she coauthored a publication for Possibilities of an In Vitro Meat Production System, which applied tissue engineering technology to the cultured meat application. She spoke at 2012 TEDxToronto about cultured meat and was soon after appointed as the head of New Harvest. She is also a one-third founder of the start-up company Perfect Day, which is producing an animal-free cow's milk.
caption: Isha Datar 2016
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