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

全球粮食系统需要增加50%的粮食产量，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)。根据气候变化独立委员会的数据，14%的温室气体排放来自世界肉类供应，在整个价值链不变的情况下，到2050年，食品系统的排放量可能会增加30%-40%(IPCC，2020)。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52%的温室气体用于制造猪肉，减少92%的温室气体用于制造牛肉。它还将减少63%的鸡肉、72%的猪肉和95%的牛肉的土地使用(Good Food Institute，2021年)。虽然目前的生产成本比可比的动物肉类产品高出100-10,000倍，但如果有适当的放大技术和价格，可能会在2030年之前达到一个竞争点。该行业的进展一直很缓慢，但在过去的十年里，人工肉已经从2013年第一个实验室种植的汉堡成本25万美元，到2023年在美国获得批准并在新加坡餐馆/市场销售的人工鸡肉。Animal Alternative Technologies是一家总部位于剑桥大学的工程B2B公司。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，包括专业工艺、使能技术、软件、硬件和原材料。我们的使命是使获得可持续食品的途径民主化，并应对世界上一些最大的可持续性和粮食安全挑战。在这个研发项目中，我们与曼彻斯特大学和剑桥大学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规模化生产自己的定制栽培肉类产品。我们将通过开发我们的新型支架和生物反应器系统来实现这一点，该系统使养殖肉类生产商能够生产出大量负担得起的肉类产品(从羊肉和猪肉开始)，这些产品可扩展、营养丰富、美味，可供一般消费，对环境的影响更低，肉的质量更高，当地供应链更牢固，来源合乎道德。到目前为止，我们已经从风投和战略投资者那里筹集了超过300万GB的资金，并开发了几项专利/开创性技术，包括水凝胶、细胞线和生物电子传感器。我们的工作获得了多个奖项，AAT参与了4个加速器。我们已经从TechCrunch、Food Navigator、The Spoon等网站获得了报道，并被推动应对粮食安全和可持续发展挑战。

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.