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Despite the marketability of lab-grown breast milke it’s a tough road to navigate the science, politics, and growing pains on the way to market, as BIOMILQ CEO Leila Strickland can attest. WRAL TechWire spoke with Strickland about the challenges the company is facing, now three years into existence. We started with the regulatory hurdles in developing a new form of nutrition for babies.
Mother holds a newborn baby in a hospital bed.
Biomilq, a North Carolina-based startup, is working to recreate breast milk outside of the body, a breakthrough that could change the infant nutrition space.
KickStart Venture Services celebrates the first 3.8 Initiative cohort, a program bolstering startup board leadership for women created in partnership with the RTP chapter of Women In Bio.
Biomilq was co-founded in 2020 by a cell biologist who struggled with breastfeeding and was inspired by news of the first lab-grown burger.