Mark Post

Mark Post
Mark Post speaking on the future of food at the SingularityU The Netherlands Summit, 2016.
Born	Marcus Johannes Post 20 July 1957 Amsterdam
Residence	Berg en Terblijt (near Maastricht)
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	Utrecht University
Occupation	Professor of Vascular Physiology and Tissue Engineering CSO of Mosa Meat
Employer	Maastricht University
Organization	Mosa Meat
Known for	Cultured meat research

Marcus Johannes "Mark" Post (born 20 July 1957) is a Dutch pharmacologist who is Professor of Vascular Physiology at Maastricht University and (until 2010) Professor of Angiogenesis in Tissue Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. On 5 August 2013, he was the first in the world to present a proof of concept for cultured meat.

Post received his medical degree from the Utrecht University in 1982 and trained for a PhD in Pulmonary Pharmacology, graduating from the Utrecht University in 1989.

Post joined the KNAW Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands in 1989 before being appointed full-time Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (1998–2001). Five years later, he moved with his lab to Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, and was appointed Associate Professor of Medicine and of Physiology (2001–2010).

In July 2002, Post returned to the Netherlands as a Professor of Vascular Physiology at Maastricht University and Professor of Angiogenesis in Tissue Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (until 2010). Since January 2004, he has been Chair of Physiology and Vice Dean of Biomedical Technology at Maastricht University.

As the Dutch government cut down subsidies for cultured meat development at the universities of Utrecht, Amsterdam and Eindhoven in 2009, jeopardising the Netherlands' international leading role, Maastricht University was able to attract an anonymous foreign investor (in 2013 revealed as Google co-founder Sergey Brin) and resume the research. In December 2011, Post and his team announced to conduct practical experiment into the production of lab-grown meat. They planned to produce a cultured hamburger by September 2012. The costs of the world's first in-vitro burger were 250,000 euros. Eventually, it was presented to the public, cooked and eaten on 5 August 2013 at a press conference in London. Austrian nutritional scientist Hanni Rützler judged it to be just like meat, although not yet as juicy.