Meat the Future Challenge: Win $1000 USD and an Integriculture Cultured Meat Starter Kit

Students from around the world can apply by March 25, 2025 to receive a cultured meat starter kit plus $1000 to get your cell ag research off the ground.

What would you do with $1,000 and a cultured meat starter kit?

Tokyo-based startup IntegriCulture has launched a starter kit to drive innovation and accelerate R&D in the cultivated meat sector.

Are you a student looking to launch a project in cellular agriculture? Or have an idea for a class activity but need supplies?

Check out the Meat the Future Challenge to win one of these starter kits plus $1,000 to get your project off the ground!

Apply Here by March 25 >>

This challenge is open to student researchers of all ages, experience levels, and fields of study, from around the world. We strongly encourage applicants who:

Are looking to apply their current research to the field of cultured meat.
Are eager to begin cultured meat research and need a starting point.
Are curious to explore IntegriCulture’s food-grade reagents and their applications.

Applications are due March 25, 2025.

Finalists will pitch their idea April 12 at the 2025 Food 4 Thought Festival at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on April 12, in person or virtually.

There will be at least 3 winners!

“The cultivated meat starter kit includes IMEM1.0 (a base culture medium), iDisper (an agent for cell dissociation), iCoater, (a coating solution for the extracellular matrix), and iFreezer (a solution for cryopreservation).

But the flagship product of the starter kit is the Oxy-thru Cultivator. This novel bioreactor uses Sumitomo Riko’s unique materials and precision moulding technology, and is available in 200ml and 1,000ml sizes (with larger capacities under development). IntegriCulture plans to further design suitable containers and culture methods for each cell type.”

Text from GreenQueen’s coverage of the kit. Image courtesy of IntegriCulture.

Thanks to Food 4 Thought Innovations and the Culley Carlson Foundation for partnering to deliver this amazing opportunity to students everywhere. Thanks to Integriculture for their commitment to open science in cellular agriculture and for crafting a starter kit to get more people involved in the science of cell ag!

New Harvest is pleased to provide some light advisory support to this project. I will also be one of the judges at the April 12 pitch portion of the project.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, and I hope to see you in Cambridge!