Elliot Swartz
The Good Food Institute Lead Scientist, Cultivated Meat
Elliot Swartz is a Lead Scientist specializing in cultivated meat at The Good Food Institute (GFI) (www.
gfi.org), an international nonprofit organization developing the roadmap for a sustainable, secure, and just protein supply.
Elliot’s work at GFI focuses on analyzing the technical and economic bottlenecks facing the cultivated meat industry, identifying opportunities to accelerate the industry, and educating scientists, the public, and other industry stakeholders. Swartz has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he worked with induced pluripotent stem cells to model neuromuscular disease.
Elliot currently sits on the external advisory board of the Cultivated Meat Consortium at UC Davis and the governance group for the Cultivated Meat Modeling Consortium (www.thecmmc.org).