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Dr. Rosalyn Abbott is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the Biomedical Engineering Department. Abbott received her B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont. She was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tufts University working under the supervision of David Kaplan, where she was introduced to the cellular agriculture field in 2016. After starting her lab at CMU in 2017, Abbott worked with Mission Barns in their early stages of funding. Mission Barns focuses on cultivating fat with plant proteins to create bacon, meatballs, and sausage. Her lab at CMU is currently working on 3D printing cultivated meat products with funding from the National Science Foundation and a crowd-sourced funding platform (Experiment) backed by New Harvest and the Footprint Coalition. Abbott has a broad perspective on the academic and industrial landscape of cell-based meat with deep expertise in tissue engineering and lipid biology. She is passionate about the potential impact cultured meat products will have on reducing animal cruelty, improving food security and tackling the environmental impacts of conventional meat production.