Prof. Marcus Johannes “Mark” Post is Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Mosa Meat. Mark was born in Amsterdam and obtained an MD and PhD in pharmacology from Utrecht University in 1989. He went on to serve as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, Technical University Eindhoven and Maastricht University. He has held the title of Professor of Vascular Physiology and Tissue Engineering at Maastricht University since 2002. In 2008, Mark joined a team of researchers including Peter Verstrate working on tissue engineering muscle for meat consumption. On August 5, 2013, he presented the world’s first cultivated beef burger in London. In 2016, Mark and Peter co-founded Mosa Meat to commercialize cultivated meat. The company currently has over 165 employees from 34 countries and remains a leader in cellular agriculture.