Tom Jeffries and Tom Kelleher met at Rutgers University in the 1970s while studying industrially useful microbes. Jeffries went on to run a yeast genomics program at the US Department of Agriculture; Kelleher spent decades in the biomedical industry, working with biologics like insulin,
“Alternative proteins are promising to be the growth engine food for the food industry. Early integration of ESG risks and opportunities will help companies, and their investors, avoid the pitfalls of the conventional protein industry.”