Ilan Samish, PhD, disrupts the Nutrition & Healthy Eating sector with a designer protein

Dr. Samish is driven to create products that address global wellness issues such as metabolic diseases linked to high sugar intake and the climate crisis.

With his protein-based sugar substitute, Amai Proteins has just been recognized as the top global startup addressing the world’s biggest challenges, winning the Extreme Tech Challenge this month. Read more…

Amai Proteins was also the 2020 winner of the GWS “Call for Innovations” competition Dr. Samish looks forward to updating delegates at #2022GWS on this first healthy, tasty protein-based sweetener and his Pro-Protein Platform, launching globally within the year.

Dr. Samish is a leading multidisciplinary entrepreneur and expert in computational protein design, genetics, biochemistry, and computational biology who has worked in top-notch multidisciplinary teams. He has a Ph.D. from Weizmann, a postdoc from the University of Pennsylvania, and an academic career at Weizmann, Hebrew University and Braude.

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