Mark Post

If you follow your passion in work, you use your energy optimally

Mark Post is an MD, PhD and professor of Sustainable Industrial Tissue Engineering at Maastricht University. His main research includes engineering of tissues for medical applications and consumer products, which has led to the development of cultured beef from bovine skeletal muscle stem cells. In August 2013, he presented the world’s first hamburger from cultured beef. He is CSO and co-founder of two companies, MosaMeat and Qorium that will commercialize cultured meat and cultured leather.

How did I unlock my potential?

I have unlocked my potential staying an independent thinker, not hindered by what others or expect from me and also not hindered by my own expectations. This is accompanied by a continuous desire to understand and learn