Mia Keyser

Mia Keyser is a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder with a life-long passion for cellular agriculture. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, specializing in Cellular Manipulation, and from The University of Colorado Boulder with a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering. In her undergraduate research, Mia initiated a novel research project on the investigation of artificial food dyes as obesogens, gaining skills in developing and managing biological research projects, routine sterile cell culture and tissue engineering, and assay development and analysis. For her research, Mia received three undergraduate research awards, the 2020 Ken Westerberg Award for Excellence in Research, the 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, and graduated with Carnegie Institute of Technology Research Honors. At her graduate institution, Mia received a fellowship as a first-year through the 2020-2021 Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need Program and is currently a recipient of the New Harvest Fellowship Program. These fellowships enabled her to work on open-access research to help enable the economic viability of cultivated meat as a mass-produced consumer product. Throughout her graduate education, she additionally has been a part of the leadership team and now serves as the current President of The Boulder Alt. Protein Project, a student organization initiative by the Good Food Institute. It is her goal to become a leader in revolutionizing the US food production infrastructure into a sustainable, environmentally friendly system through the widespread integration of cellular agriculture.

Mia is currently working as a PhD Student/Graduate Research Assistant, co-advised by Dr. Timothy Whitehead and Dr. Stephanie Bryant at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

September 2023