Birmingham, UK, 19th March 2024 – Quest are excited to announce that we’ve been awarded funding from Innovate UK through the ‘UKRI Technology Missions Fund, Engineering Biology CR&D competition’.
The funding will be used to help further advance Quest’s next-generation controllable cell lines for producing cultivated meat at scale.
Quest Co-founder and CEO, Ivan Wall, said:
“We are delighted to have been awarded funding to advance our innovative technology to create next generation scalable cell lines. Engineering biology is a powerful tool for unlocking the power of scale up to create tasty cultivated meat whilst maintaining regulatory control and safety”
About Quest
Quest is a UK start-up set up by stem cell bioprocess experts. They create low-cost, sustainable cell culture raw materials for the cultivated meat sector. They are advancing a patent-pending multi-format ingredients platform and licence-free primary cell lines that are validated in scalable bioreactors. Quest Meat supports customers to accelerate scale-up and cost reduction in cell production that includes cultivated meat producers, value chain companies, and research organisations.
https://www.questmeat.com
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About Innovate UK
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