Prototyping and Validating Novel Scalable Biomimetic Bioreactors for Low Carbon Cultivated Meat Production

全球粮食系统需要生产50%以上的粮食，以维持未来40年不断增长的人口，同时大幅减少与粮食生产和消费相关的温室气体（GHG）排放（社会市场基金会，2020年）。根据气候变化独立小组的数据，温室气体排放总量的14%可归因于世界肉类供应，如果整个价值链不发生变化，到2050年，食品系统的排放量可能会增加30-40%。（IPCC，2020年）。研究表明，在十年内，种植肉类将减少17%的温室气体用于生产鸡肉，减少了52%，使猪肉和减少了92%，使牛肉。它还将减少鸡肉63%，猪肉72%和牛肉95%的土地使用（Good Food Institute，2021）。虽然目前的生产成本比同类动物肉类产品高出100- 10，000倍，但如果技术和价格能够适当扩大，那么在2030年之前就可以达到竞争力。该行业的进展一直很缓慢，但在过去的十年中，人工培育的肉类已经从2013年第一个实验室培育的汉堡花费25万美元，到2023年在美国获得批准并在新加坡餐馆/市场销售的人工培育的鸡肉。我们正在为养殖肉类生产创建一个可扩展的端到端生态系统，包括专业流程，支持技术，软件，硬件和原材料。我们的使命是使可持续粮食的获取民主化，并应对世界上一些最大的可持续性和粮食安全挑战。我们与曼彻斯特大学和剑桥大学在这个研发项目中的合作旨在开发一种新型的生物反应器技术，使肉类生产商能够为市场大规模生产他们自己定制的养殖肉类产品。我们将通过开发新的支架和生物反应器系统来实现这一目标，使养殖肉类生产商能够生产大量负担得起的肉类产品。（从羊肉和猪肉开始），可扩展，营养，美味，一般消费，环境影响较低，肉类质量更高，本地供应链更强大，来源符合道德。迄今为止，我们已经从风险投资者和战略投资者那里筹集了超过300万英镑，并开发了多项专利/开创性技术，包括水凝胶、细胞系和生物电子传感器。我们的工作获得了多个奖项，AAT参加了4个加速器。我们已经收到了来自TechCrunch，Food Navigator，The Spoon等的报道，并致力于应对粮食安全和可持续性挑战。

Global food systems need to produce 50% more food to sustain growing populations over the next 40years, whilst substantially reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with food production and consumption (Social Market Foundation, 2020). According to the Independent Panel on Climate Change, 14% of total GHG emissions are attributable to the world's meat supply, without changes throughout the value chain, food systems emissions are likely to increase by 30-40% by 2050 (IPCC,2020).Research shows that within a decade Cultivated Meat will reduce 17% GHG for the creation of chicken, reduce by 52% to make pork and reduce by 92% to make beef. It will also reduce land use by 63% for chicken, 72% for pork and 95% for beef (Good Food Institute,2021). While production costs are currently between 100-10,000 times higher than for comparable animal meat products, with the right scale up technologies and prices could reach a competitive point earlier than 2030\. Progress in the industry has been slow but in the last decade cultivated meat has gone form the first lab grown burger costing \>$250,000 in 2013 to cultivated chicken being approved in the USA and sold in Singapore restaurants/markets in 2023\.Animal Alternative Technologies is an engineering B2B company based in the University of Cambridge. We are creating a scalable, end-to-end ecosystem for Cultivated Meat production, including specialist processes, enabling technologies, software, hardware and raw materials. Our mission is to democratise access to sustainable food and tackle some of the world's biggest sustainability and food security challenges. Our collaboration with the University of Manchester and University of Cambridge during this R&D project aims to develop a novel bioreactor technology that enables meat producers to create their own tailored, cultivated meat products for market at scale. We will do this by developing our novel scaffold and bioreactor system which enables cultivated meat producers to produce a plethora of affordable meat products (starting with lamb and pork), that are scalable, nutritious, delicious, for general consumption, with a lower environmental impact, higher quality meat, stronger local supply chains, and ethically sources.To date, we have raised over £3million from VCs and strategic investors, and have developed several patents/pioneering technologies, including hydrogels, cell lines, and bioelectronic sensors. Our work has received multiple awards, and AAT has participated in 4 accelerators. We have received coverage from TechCrunch, Food Navigator, The Spoon, etc., and are driven to tackle food security and sustainability challenges.