FABRICATING THE FUTURE
Biofabricated natural materials. All quality. No impact.
Pelagen has been built around one thing from the beginning: skin. Led by the technology of our CSO, Prof. Abdoel el Ghalbzouri, we are dedicated to engineering skin tissue without animals, that can still capture all the biological complexities that makes leather an unbeatable material.
Our team is made of dedicated scientists, each with unique expertise to make high quality engineered leather a reality. Beginning with tissue engineering, we leverage decades of medical research leadership from Leiden University Medical Center – Europe’s pioneer in skin engineering. Our living tissue, made from cells, then gets transformed into leather and used as an animal-free alternative in applications across fashion, automotive, interiors, and beyond.
Our tech sits at the core of our advantage: engineered leather that’s one-to-one comparable with the kind we already know.
From the cells we use, to the way we cultivate our tissue into something both strong and beautiful, we have a suite of closely-held IP that stems from decades of biomedical engineering.
