Tufts University (Cellular Agriculture Research)

Fact sheet

• Founded in 2021↗ Grants | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ New Cellular Agriculture Consortium Will Help Develop the ...↗ Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA)↗ Leadership | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ Homepage | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture
• HQ in Medford, Massachusetts, USA↗ Grants | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ New Cellular Agriculture Consortium Will Help Develop the ...↗ Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA)↗ Leadership | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ Homepage | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture
• Key focus areas include cultivated meat production, bioprocess engineering, and tissue engineering research↗ Grants | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ New Cellular Agriculture Consortium Will Help Develop the ...↗ Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA)↗ Leadership | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ Homepage | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture
• Operates the USDA-funded National Institute for Cellular Agriculture↗ Grants | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ New Cellular Agriculture Consortium Will Help Develop the ...↗ Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA)↗ Leadership | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ Homepage | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture
• Includes an industry-facing consortium with members such as UPSIDE Foods, Cargill, and The Good Food Institute↗ Grants | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ New Cellular Agriculture Consortium Will Help Develop the ...↗ Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA)↗ Leadership | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture↗ Homepage | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture
• Actively researching serum-free and FBS-alternative cell culture media to reduce production costs↗ Office Action Analysis: 18256694 — SUPPLEMENTED SERUM-FREE MEDIA FOR CULTURED MEAT PRODUCTION | IP Author · 2026-08-07↗ The Microbe Smoothie Diet · 2026-07-30
• Published research in Trends in Biotechnology on engineering porcine preadipocytes for endogenous omega-3 fatty acid production↗ Happy to see our work out today in Trends in Biotechnology. We engineered porcine preadipocyte progenitors for the endogenous production of omega-3 fatty acids. We aimed to demonstrate that we can tune … | Camilo Riquelme Guzmán · 2026-08-04
• Hosted Natsu Sugama (Ajinomoto Co., Inc.) as a Visiting Researcher at TUCCA↗ Huge congrats Camilo, thank you so much for including me in your amazing work! I was so happy that I could work with you:) | Natsu Sugama · 2026-08-05
• Filed patent application No. 18/256,694 ('Supplemented Serum-Free Media for Cultured Meat Production'), filed Jun 09, 2023, priority Dec 09, 2020↗ Office Action Analysis: 18256694 — SUPPLEMENTED SERUM-FREE MEDIA FOR CULTURED MEAT PRODUCTION | IP Author · 2026-08-07
• Filed patent application No. 18/252,714 ('Ectopic Cellular Growth Factor Expression for Low-Cost Production of Cell-Cultured Foods'), filed May 11, 2023↗ Office Action Analysis: 18252714 — ECTOPIC CELLULAR GROWTH FACTOR EXPRESSION FOR LOW-COST PRODUCTION OF CELL-CULTURED FOODS | IP Author · 2026-08-07

Connections

• The Good Food Institute — Member of the industry consortium managed by the Center for Cellular Agriculture.↗ Homepage | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture
• UPSIDE Foods — Member of the industry consortium managed by the Center for Cellular Agriculture.↗ Homepage | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture

Recent developments

• Tufts University has a patent application (No. 18/252,714) filed May 2023 titled 'Ectopic Cellular Growth Factor Expression for Low-Cost Production of Cell-Cultured Foods,' targeting cost reduction in cultivated meat via engineered growth factor expression.

  Read more ↗insights.ipauthor.com7 Aug

• Tufts University has a patent application (No. 18/256,694) filed June 2023 titled 'Supplemented Serum-Free Media for Cultured Meat Production,' with priority dating to December 2020, reflecting active IP development in serum-free media for cultivated meat.

  Read more ↗insights.ipauthor.com7 Aug

• Researchers at Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA) published a study in Trends in Biotechnology engineering porcine preadipocyte progenitors for endogenous production of omega-3 fatty acids, demonstrating the ability to tune fatty acid profiles in cultivated meat cells.

  Read more ↗linkedin.com4 Aug

• Tufts University researchers are working to reduce cultivated meat costs by finding alternatives to fetal bovine serum (FBS), which is derived from cattle blood and remains one of the most expensive inputs in cell-based meat production.

  Read more ↗labgrowntechnologies.com30 Jul

Links