Max Jamilly

London

max jamilly

Ventures

2020 – Hoxton Farms · Co-founder & CEO Building the bioindustrial revolution with stem cells. Pilot plant in central London. Backed by Founders Fund, Fine Structure Ventures and Global Brain.

News6 articles

Jun 2026 The winners of Brexit Financial Times · Peter Foster, Madeleine Speed and Andy Bounds · Hoxton Farms on how UK novel-food approvals became “the envy of other EU countries” Jan 2026 Startups 100 2026: Hoxton Farms at number 12 Startups.co.uk · Annual ranking of the UK’s most promising new companies Nov 2025 Exclusive: Hoxton Farms files for Singapore approval of cultivated pork fat Green Queen · First regulatory dossier, submitted to the Singapore Food Agency Jun 2025 Mitsui Chemicals invests in Hoxton Farms Mitsui Chemicals · Strategic investment and biomanufacturing partnership across Asia-Pacific Mar 2025 Hoxton Farms and Sumitomo strike strategic partnership for Japan and APAC AgFunderNews · Elaine Watson Sep 2023 Inside Hoxton Farms, the first UK cultured-fat plant and its secret weapon Forbes · Daniela De Lorenzo

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Speaking6 appearances

2026 SynBioBeta 2026 SynBioBeta · San Jose · Cultivated fat and bioproduction Talk How Max Jamilly grows cultivated fat YouTube · The Hoxton Farms story Talk From cell biologist to co-founder YouTube · Hoxton Farms 2024 Behind the Business City A.M. · Making meat fat sexy again Podcast Career Conversations Food Matters Live · A world without industrial farming Podcast Founding Hoxton Farms Axial · Creating the future of food

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Publications3 papers

Decoupling tRNA promoter and processing activities enables specific Pol-II Cas9 guide RNA expression Nature Communications · 2 Apr 2019
A KMT2A-AFF1 gene regulatory network highlights the role of core transcription factors and reveals the regulatory logic of key downstream target genes Genome Research · 3 Jun 2021
The Future of Meat Industrial Biotechnology · 2 Aug 2021

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CV

Building

Hoxton FarmsCo-founder & CEO · London · 2020 – present

Before

Venture capitalDeep tech and life sciences · London
Gen9DNA synthesis · Boston
Microsoft ResearchBiological computation · Cambridge

Education

University of OxfordPhD, Synthetic Biology · 2015 – 2020
University of CambridgeMPhil in Bioscience Enterprise · 2013 – 2014
University of CambridgeMA Hons, Natural Sciences (Biological) · 2010 – 2013

Recognition

Genetics SocietyElected Postgraduate Member · Jan 2020 – Present
Royal Society of BiologyElected member · Jan 2020 – Present