1. Cultured Meat in Academia
Andrew Stout
PhD candidate – Tufts University department of Biomedical engineering
New Harvest Fellow

2. Academia & Industry: aligned but separate
Build foundation
Train talent
Apply foundation (currently medicine)
Optimize production 1
Publish findings
Federal role in development
Patent inventions & establish IP
Federal role in regulation 2
Future innovations (gen. 1, 2, 3…)
“Collateral” advancement (medicine & food science)
Find challenges & market-drivers
Develop connected cellular agricultural economies 3

3. Realizing the potential of cultured meat
Design constraints
Animal free & scalable
Edible
MATERIALS
CORE BIOLOGY
MATERIALS
Scaled production
Low cost inputs
PROCESS
PROCESS
Understanding animal tissue
Understanding input  output (growth, flavor, nutrition)
CORE BIOLOGY
New Harvest:

4. Realizing the potential of cultured meat
Design constraints
Projected Impact of Cultured Meat
Animal free & scalable
Edible
MATERIALS
Scaled production
Low cost inputs
PROCESS
Understanding animal tissue
Understanding input  output (growth, flavor, nutrition)
CORE BIOLOGY
Environ. Sci. Technol.  45, 14,