New research advances methods for cultivating meat
The School of Food Science and Nutrition is starting a new project in collaboration with Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing Hub (CARMA) to accelerate scaffold innovation in cultivated meat.
Dr Amin Sadeghpour's research group at the School of Food Science and Nutrition is leading a newly awarded Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing Hub (CARMA) Pump Priming Grant to develop next-generation scaffolds for cultivated meat.
Dr Sadeghpour, the principal lead of the project, commented: “This multidisciplinary project will tackle emerging challenges in cellular agriculture and advance the manufacturing of cultivated meat as a sustainable and appealing future generation food.”
Set to commence on 9 June 2025, the research project entitled “Hybrid lipid-polymer electrospun scaffolds for cultivated meat manufacturing” will explore sustainable scaffold solutions designed to better replicate the structure, mechanical properties, and digestibility of traditional meat.
The project is a joint venture and in collaboration with Dr Julia Gala de Pablo of the School of Physics and Astronomy, Dr Ruth Wonfor at Aberystwyth University, and 3D Bio-Tissues (3DBT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of BSF Enterprise PLC.
