Because Animals Corp.
$283,400.00 CAD
≈ 4 Canadians' average pay for a year
- Department
- National Research Council Canada
- 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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