"Keep all of your fundamentals strong and for sure you'll find a place in cell ag". Irfan is currently a Ph.D. candidate and New Harvest Fellow at the Engineered Biomaterials Research Laboratory at the University of Vermont where he is tissue engineering cultured meat on plant-based scaffolds.

In this episode:

• from mechanical engineer to tissue engineer


• Irfan's research in plant-based scaffolds


• fundamental vs applied research


• why plastic is so great that biomaterials haven't fully replaced it yet

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