Max Jamilly

max jamilly

London

Ventures

2025 – Hoxton Pharma · CEO Modular bioreactors for clinical manufacturing. ↗ 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 ↗ Jan 2026 Startups 100 2026: Hoxton Farms at number 12 Startups.co.uk ↗ Nov 2025 Exclusive: Hoxton Farms files for Singapore approval of cultivated pork fat Green Queen ↗ Jun 2025 Mitsui Chemicals invests in Hoxton Farms Mitsui Chemicals ↗ Mar 2025 Hoxton Farms and Sumitomo strike strategic partnership for Japan and APAC AgFunderNews ↗ Sep 2023 Inside Hoxton Farms, the first UK cultured-fat plant and its secret weapon Forbes ↗

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Speaking6 appearances

Conference Built with Biology SynBioBeta 2026 ↗ Podcast How Max Jamilly grows cultivated fat 50 Years ↗ Podcast From cell biologist to co-founder MCJ ↗ Radio Behind the Business City AM ↗ Podcast Career Conversations Food Matters Live ↗ Podcast Founding Hoxton Farms Axial ↗

For speaking enquiries, reach me on LinkedIn.

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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Building

Hoxton Farms · Hoxton PharmaCo-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, Natural Sciences (Biological) · First-class honours · 2010 – 2013

Recognition

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