Tom Cohen Ben-Arye

Dr. Tom Cohen Ben-Arye is a post-doc researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an Adjunct Prof. at Shantou University Medical college and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. 

He is one of the founders of the alternative protein field in Israel. He was a founding team member and Chief Scientist at The Good Food Institute Israel and the Modern Agriculture Foundation, and was an advisor to government bodies, corporations, startups, and academia. He developed an academic course on alternative proteins, taught at universities in Israel and internationally.

His PhD research focused on bovine skeletal muscle tissue engineering that was published in Nature Food and formed Aleph Farms. He holds degrees in molecular biochemistry, nanoscience, and nanotechnology, with specialization in tissue engineering and high-throughput single-cell analysis.

He recently relocated to China, where he is developing breakthrough technologies for breeding meat-like yeast strains, with the goal of reducing costs and improving the mimicry of meat alternatives.