Because Animals Corp.

$283,400.00 CAD

≈ 4 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2020-2021
Agreement period
June 15, 2020 – July 31, 2022
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2020-2021-Q1-952627

Published purpose

Because Animals is replacing animal-based meat in pet food with meat that is instead cultured in, and harvested from, a bioreactor. In the first step towards accomplishing this, Because Animals is developing a proprietary, chemically-defined, animal-free media formulation that supports tissue growth.

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