Prior to joining TurtleTree, Aletta was with MilliporeSigma for over 10 years. Her most recent appointment was as R&D Director of the company’s Cultured Meat department. There, Aletta led a scientific and engineering team in creating cutting-edge technologies for the manufacturing of cultured meat. She also simultaneously spearheaded business and product development. Informing this leadership role was her previous experience as MilliporeSigma’s Head of Cell Therapy Bioprocessing, in which she engineered cost-effective cell culture media and reagents for use in cellular therapeutic applications.
Aletta received her PhD in Immunology and Neuroscience from the Boston University School of Medicine in 2007. Since then, she has achieved multiple career milestones: Besides having developed a xeno-free cell culture medium for mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) expansion, she is also an editorial board member of Stem Cells Translational Medicine, an international journal dedicated to stem cell research.
Explaining her transition from biopharmaceuticals to cellular agriculture, ...
