Cellular agriculture
Within this research theme we focus on making animal-based products using cultivated animal, plant or microbial cells rather than animals themselves. This process, cellular agriculture, enables the production of cultivated meat, cultivated fish, animal-free leather and animal-free dairy.
Our Cellular Agriculture team brings together a diverse team of bioprocess engineers, biologists, biomedical engineers, among others. By leveraging our multidisciplinary expertise, we aim to tackle the major scientific and technological challenges in the cellag space, aiming at the development efficient, scalable, and cost-effective processes for cellular agriculture products.
We believe cellular agriculture has the potential to revolutionize our food system by reducing environmental impact, improving animal welfare, and ensuring a secure, safe, and ethical food supply.
Cultivated Meat and Seafood
Expertises
- Cell line development
- Downstream processing of novel food ingredients
Topics
- Media optimization for cultivated meat and seafood
- Efficient and cost-effective downstream processing of different biomasses to source media components
- Combination of automated liquid handling with Design of Experiments, to test and validate media formulations in a high-throughput manner
Precision Fermentation
Expertises
- Metabolic engineering of microorganisms
- Advanced bioreactor cultivations
- Downstream process design for protein recovery
- Recombinant protein production in yeast and bacteria
Topics
- Increasing the sustainability of food (ingredient) production through precision fermentation
- Enhancing dairy and meat protein production at scale
- Strain optimization to ensure optimal production of compounds of interest
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