Lisa Dyson’s Mission to Make Air-Based Meat—and Why It Matters So Much

If the idea of making a nutritious, sustainable protein from air sounds like the stuff of science fiction to you, then you’ve probably never heard much about Lisa Dyson or Air Protein, the company she founded.

A keynote presenter at IFT’s FIRST virtual event, Dyson, who is a former Fulbright scholar with a PhD in physics from MIT, founded Air Protein two years ago to commercialize production of an alternative protein from the elements of air. In the process, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and nitrogen …