North Carolina Biotechnology Center
NCBiotech is a private, non-profit corporation supported by the N.C. General Assembly. Its mission is to transform North Carolina and its life sciences technology-based economic development through innovation, commercialization, education, and business growth.www.ncbiotech.org
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Oct 9, 2026
IreneHOST
All the local industry players were in attendance and had flown in from around the world.
IreneHOST
We were sitting together in NC Biotech's blandly carpeted lecture hall for the opening session, listening to optimistic remarks about international collaboration, an opaque joke about an extruder, a shout-out to Lan in the back, from the insect side, no to Ian in the back from the insect side, all the while knowing that the industry's biggest gambit yet had just failed.
IreneHOST
With Believer gone bust, I hope to salvage a glimmer of optimism for the industry from the day's proceedings, or at the very least, an honest assessment of what had gone wrong.
IreneHOST
During a break in the program, Everyone filed out and congregated in the atrium.
Kelsey PowellGUEST
And then there are a lot of others like me too.
Kelsey PowellGUEST
Um, I actually was in Raleigh on September 17 to speak, um, at NC Biotech, and I had a, um, lady named Kay Freeman.
Kelsey PowellGUEST
If you're listening, Kay, I love you so much.
Kelsey PowellGUEST
[kissing sound] Uh, [laughs] she came, uh, to my, uh, speech and, um, it was...
Christian BrownGUEST
As I said, my name is Christian Brown.
Christian BrownGUEST
I serve as Director of Economic Development for the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Christian BrownGUEST
I've been with the center for about two years.
Christian BrownGUEST
Quick background is I did work in Research Triangle Park for a number of years in the early 2000s as a chemist, so I have a scientific background.
Mike CarnesGUEST
Good morning, Tabari, and thanks for having us here today.
Mike CarnesGUEST
My name is Mike Carnes.
Mike CarnesGUEST
I lead the Emerging Company Development Program at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Mike CarnesGUEST
We have a variety of programs that are intended to support companies as they launch, grow, and develop here in North Carolina.
IreneHOST
The donation cemented the state's status as a new global center of the cultivated meat industry.
IreneHOST
The Bezos Center would join the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, an economic development organization for the Life Sciences and Research Triangle Park.
IreneHOST
On the commercial side of things, Believer Meats, an Israeli company producing cultivated chicken, had recently broken ground on a 200,000 square foot manufacturing plant in Wilson, North Carolina.
IreneHOST
The plant would be the largest cultivated meat facility in the world, capable, the company claimed, of producing 21 million pounds of engineered chicken per year.
18 MINS LATER
IreneHOST
The morning after my reconnaissance mission, more news broke.
IreneHOST
Believer was declaring bankruptcy and would shutter the factory in Wilson before it printed a single chicken strip.
IreneHOST
I had timed my trip to North Carolina to coincide with the first annual Global Forum for Plant-Based and Alternative Proteins held at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
IreneHOST
This was how I found myself cloistered among the faithful as their meat dreams unraveled in real time.
Mack PaulGUEST
Research Triangle Park, the foundation that manages the park, was interested in a comprehensive book covering the park.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so those conversations started a while ago, but it wasn't until about five years ago, the NC Biotech Center got involved and they really got behind the project and helped raise some funds and open a lot of doors to for the interviews.
Mack PaulGUEST
And we can get into that a little bit because I think it's.
Mack PaulGUEST
Wonderful that this book captured a lot of really important figures who were, you know, getting late in their life and several of whom have passed since since the project started.
48 MINS LATER
Mack PaulGUEST
And biotech at that time, hard to remember, 1980, I mean, you know, it was like the first IPO, one of the first, you know, Nobel Prize is awarded for gene sequencing.
Mack PaulGUEST
So it's a very infancy of the industry.
Mack PaulGUEST
And yet North Carolina, like this little backwater, decides to invest in this industry by creating the NC Biotech Center.
Mack PaulGUEST
And by good fortune, they hire as their director a guy named Charles Hamner from Virginia who, you know, ran the med school at UVA.
Mack PaulGUEST
Research Triangle Park, the foundation that manages the park, was interested in a comprehensive book covering the park.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so those conversations started a while ago, but it wasn't until about five years ago, the NC Biotech Center got involved and they really got behind the project and helped raise some funds and opened a lot of doors for the interviews.
Mack PaulGUEST
And we can get into that a little bit because I think it's Wonderful that this book captured a lot of really important figures who were, you know, getting late in their life and several of whom have passed since the project started.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so for me, my dad, you know, saw it as a chance for us to work together.
43 MINS LATER
Mack PaulGUEST
And biotech at that time, hard to remember, 1980, I mean, you know, it was like the first IPO, one of the first, you know, Nobel Prize is awarded for gene sequencing.
Mack PaulGUEST
So it's a very infancy of the industry.
Mack PaulGUEST
And yet North Carolina, like this little backwater, decides to invest in this industry by creating the NC Biotech Center.
Mack PaulGUEST
And by good fortune, they hire as their director a guy named Charles Hamner from Virginia who, you know, ran the med school at UVA.
Mack PaulGUEST
Research Triangle Park, the foundation that manages the park, was interested in a comprehensive book covering the, the park.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so those conversations started a while ago, but it wasn't until about five years ago the NC Biotech Center got involved and, and they really, um, got behind the project and helped raise some funds and opened a lot of doors t- to, for the interviews.
Mack PaulGUEST
And we can get into that a little bit because I think it's wonderful that this book captured a lot of really important figures who were, you know, getting late in their life and several of whom have passed since, since the project started.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so, um, for me, my, my dad, you know, saw it as a chance for us to work together.
45 MINS LATER
Mack PaulGUEST
And biotech at that time is hard to remember.
Mack PaulGUEST
1980, I mean, you know, was like the first IP- IPO, one of the first, you know, um, Nobel Prizes awarded for gene sequencing.
Mack PaulGUEST
So it was a very infac- infancy of the industry, and yet North Carolina, like this little backwater, decides to, like, invest in this industry by creating the NC Biotech Center, and by good fortune, they hire as their director a guy named Charles Hamner from Virginia, who, you know, ran the med school at UVA.
Mack PaulGUEST
He was one of the first to ever do in vitro fer- fertilization in the world, I think the third.
Mack PaulGUEST
Research Triangle Park, the foundation that manages the park, was interested in a comprehensive book covering the, the park.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so those conversations started a while ago, but it wasn't until about five years ago the NC Biotech Center got involved and, and they really, um, got behind the project and helped raise some funds and open a lot of doors to-- for the interviews.
Mack PaulGUEST
And we can get into that a little bit because I think it's wonderful that this book captured a lot of really important figures who were, you know, getting late in their life and several of whom have passed since, since the project started.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so, um, for me, my, my dad, you know, saw it as a chance for us to work together.
41 MINS LATER
Mack PaulGUEST
1980, I mean, you know, was like the first IP- IPO.
Mack PaulGUEST
One of the first, you know, um, Nobel Prizes awarded for gene sequencing.
Mack PaulGUEST
So it's a very emphasis- infancy of the i- industry, and yet North Carolina, like this little backwater, decides to, like, invest in this industry by creating the NC Biotech Center.
Mack PaulGUEST
And by good fortune, they hire as their director a guy named Charles Hamner from Virginia, who, you know, ran the med school at UVA.
Mack PaulGUEST
Research Triangle Park, the foundation that manages the park, was interested in a comprehensive book covering the, the park.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so those conversations started a while ago, but it wasn't until about five years ago the NC Biotech Center got involved and, and they really, um, got behind the project and helped raise some funds and opened a lot of doors t- to, for the interviews.
Mack PaulGUEST
And we can get into that a little bit because I think it's wonderful that this book captured a lot of really important figures who were, you know, getting late in their life, and several of whom have passed since, since the project started.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so, um, for me, my, my dad, you know, saw it as a chance for us to work together.
40 MINS LATER
Mack PaulGUEST
And biotech at that time is hard to remember.
Mack PaulGUEST
1980, I mean, you know, was like the first IP- IPO'd, one of the first, you know, um, Nobel Prizes awarded for gene sequencing.
Mack PaulGUEST
So it's a very infac- infancy of the i- industry, and yet North Carolina, like this little backwater, decides to, like, invest in this industry by creating the NC Biotech Center.
Mack PaulGUEST
And by good fortune, they hire as their director a guy named Charles Hamner from Virginia who, you know, ran the med school at UVA.
Mack PaulGUEST
Research Triangle Park, the foundation that manages the park, was interested in a comprehensive book covering the park.
Mack PaulGUEST
And so those conversations started a while ago, but it wasn't until about five years ago, the NC Biotech Center got involved and they really got behind the project and helped raise some funds and open a lot of doors to for the interviews.
Mack PaulGUEST
And we can get into that a little bit because I think it's.
Mack PaulGUEST
Wonderful that this book captured a lot of really important figures who were getting late in their life and several of whom have passed since the project started.
41 MINS LATER
Mack PaulGUEST
And biotech at that time, hard to remember, 1980, I mean, you know, it was like the first IPO, one of the first, you know, Nobel Prize is awarded for gene sequencing.
Mack PaulGUEST
So it's a very infancy of the industry.
Mack PaulGUEST
And yet North Carolina, like this little backwater, decides to invest in this industry by creating the NC Biotech Center.
Mack PaulGUEST
And by good fortune, they hire as their director a guy named Charles Hamner from Virginia who, you know, ran the med school at UVA.