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BioInnovation Institute welcomes innovative mycoprotein meat project into Bio Studio program
BII's Bio Studio program supports world-leading entrepreneurial Principal Investigators (PIs) who want to translate their innovative research ideas into new solutions to the benefit of planetary and human health.
BII will support the project with an in-kind grant of up to 1M EUR per year for a project period of up to three years as well as with business development expertise, intellectual property support, access to investor network, and both wet lab and office infrastructure.
Current meat production is causing a myriad of problems. The immense environmental, ethical, and health-related implications of meat consumption mean we need meat alternatives that can meet consumers' high standards (delicious, nutritious, and affordable). Today, they cost more, taste worse, or both. The current market for meats is estimated at 1.4 trillion USD , plant-based meats represent less than 0.5% of this.
Thus, the goal of this project is to create an initial minimum viable product (MVP) of a holistically engineered mycoprotein meat alternative. The MVP will demonstrate the potential of this platform technology and serve as the basis for fundraising and the establishment of the spin-out company at the end of the project. The concept developed here will grow into a globally accessible, delicious, nutritious, and affordable food source, that can be produced without negatively impacting the planet or the people and animals who live on it.
Principal Investigator Professor Irina Borodina of the Technical University of Denmark specializes in yeast metabolic engineering. Prof. Borodina co-founded BioPhero, the bio-based agricultural pheromones company. After founding BioPhero Prof. Borodina served as CEO and CSO before the company was acquired by FNC corporation in 2022 for 200 million USD .
The Bio Studio program is a recently established BII program with the ambition to build and run a leading life science company creation facility in Europe . This latest project joins collaborations announced last year with the Danish Cancer Society, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Imperial College London, and Institute of Protein Design at University of Washington .
Since its inception in 2018, BII has supported 80 start-ups and projects with EUR 65 million alongside the venture capital, industry and business expertise it provides to help them accelerate to the next level. In total, BII's start-ups have raised over EUR 333 million in external funding from both local and international investors. Recent company successes include Adcendo, Stipe Therapeutics, Twelve Bio, Octarine Bio, and Cirqle Biomedical.
Read more about the Bio Studio program here.
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