Een belangrijk onderdeel van CANs kernprogramma zijn de PhD en EngD projecten die gestart zijn bij TU Delft, WUR en UM. Deze bestrijken een breed spectrum: van het ontwikkelen van grootschalige bioreactoren tot consumenten- en marktonderzoek.
Er zijn twaalf PhD en vijf EngD projecten gecreëerd, waarbij is gezocht naar een goede balans tussen technologisch, biologisch en maatschappelijk onderzoek. Ook is er gezorgd voor een evenwichtige spreiding tussen de betrokken universiteiten. Aan de volgende onderzoeken wordt gewerkt:
Technologie – Process design
- Using Computational Fluid Dynamics to optimize cell expansion bioreactor design for large-scale cultivated meat production (PhD Pieter Brorens – TU Delft)
- From Petri-Dish to Burger Menu: Platform process design for cell-cultivated meat and dairy products (PhD Ben Tumulero – TUDelft)
- Platform process design for cultivated meat products (EngD Frederic Michale – TUDelft)
- Platform process design for precision-fermented dairy proteins (EngD Effie Karampela – TU Delft)
- Efficient pilot-scale manufacturing of precision fermented dairy proteins (EngD project Martin Teran Velastegui, Marco Tilocca, Deborah Chikukwa – TU Delft)
- Efficient pilot-scale manufacturing of cultivated meat (EngD project Andrea Feliú Pérez, Mai Pham, Theodore Rizopoulos – TU Delft)
Verder zijn betrokken:
- Ana Somoza-Tornos | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Chemical Engineering | Process Systems Engineering | Process Systems Engineering
- Cees Haringa | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Bioprocess Engineering | Industrial fermentation, computational fluid dynamics, downscaling, coarse-grained simulations
- Henk Noorman | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Bioprocess Engineering | Bioprocess Design
- Marcel Ottens | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Bioprocess Engineering | Bioprocess Engineering, Bioprocess Design
- Marieke Klijn | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Bioprocess Engineering | Data-Driven Bioprocess Development
- Martin Pabst | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Environmental Biotechnology | Microbial Proteomics
- Antoinette Kazbar | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Bioprocess Engineering | Downstream processing, microalga
- Rene Wijffels | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Bioprocess Engineering | Bioprocess Engineering
Biologie – Cells and media
- Building a cell line engineering toolkit for cultivated meat (EngD Joana Pimenta – TU Delft)
- Selection and optimization of microorganisms/fungi that can efficiently produce animal proteins and other components under less stringent hygienic conditions (not strictly aseptic) for use in CA dairy products (PhD/EngD Willem Baris – WUR)
- Production of raw materials with a microbial cell factory for cellular agriculture (Jelle Hoek – TU Delft)
- Strategies for Medium Optimization in Precision Fermentation Alternative Dairy Proteins – A Techno-Economic Evaluation (EngD project Mia Keyser, Maria Kechagia, Gabriele Zuccaro, Gerardo Villanueva Maciel – TU Delft)
- Cost-effective raw materials for the production of cultured meat: a techno-economic assessment (EngD project Annu Mathew, Georgia Antiochou, Marit Brugmans, Rodrigo De Matos de Fernandes Manso – TU Delft)
Verder zijn betrokken:
- Nynke van den Akker | Maastricht University | Cardiovascular Research Inst. Maastricht | Fysiology | Regenerative and reconstructive medicine vascular disease
- Jack Pronk | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Industrial Microbiology | Metabolic Engineering of yeasts and fungi
- Jean-Marc Daran | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Industrial Microbiology | Yeast fermentation process and metabolic engineering
- Josh Flack | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Bioprocess Engineering | Mammalian Cell Line Engineering for cultivated meat and biotechnology
- Marcel Vieira-Lara | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Industrial Microbiology | Metabolic processes of (industrially-relevant) organisms. Systems biology
- Dirk Martens | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Bioprocess Engineering | Cell culture, bioreactor, biotechnology, engineering
- João Marques Garcia | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Bioprocess Engineering | Cultivated meat and seafood
- Josué Heinrich | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Bioprocess Engineering | Bioprocess Engineering, Precision fermentation, bioreactors
- Mark Bisschops | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Bioprocess Engineering | Microbial biotechnology, bioprocess engineering, fermentation
Voedingsproducten – Food Products
- Safe CellAg by Design (Onderzoekers: Rick de Jongh, Aleksandra Pawlik, Hasmik Hayrapetyan, Mathijs Julsing, Jan Pieter van der Berg, Gijs Kleter, Gijs Spaans, Winnie Tao – WUR)
- Towards precision fermentation-based dairy products: a study on animal-free whey proteins to assemble future dairy structures (Stefan ten Voorde – WUR)
- Biofabrication strategies and biomaterials for 3D cell development (PhD/EngD Krithi Vishnu Balaji – UM)
- Recombinant Protein Production for Scalable and Versatile Scaffolds in Muscle Tissue Engineering for Cultivated Meat (PhD/EngD Sara Bianchi – MU)
Verder zijn betrokken:
- David Kilian | Maastricht University | MERLN Institute | Biofabrication and Biomaterials in Cellular Agriculture | Biofabrication and Biomaterials for tissue engineered foodstuff
- Lorenzo Moroni | Maastricht University | MERLN Institute | Scientific director MERLN | Biofabrication for Regenerative medicine
- Matt Baker | Maastricht University | MERLN Institute | Instructive Biomaterials Eng | Synthesis and characterization of novel and dynamic materials
- Etske Bijl | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Food Quality and Design | Food science, milk & dairy
- Julia Keppler | WUR | Agrotechnology and Food Sciences | Food Process Engineering | Targeted functionalization of proteins during extraction or processing in foods
- Mark Sturme | WUR | Wageningen Food Safety Research | Team Agrochains | Molecular microbiology
- Masja Nierop Groot | WUR | Wageningen Food & Biobased Research | Food Technology | Applied food microbiology
Maatschappelijk verandering en impact – Societal transition and impact
- Drivers and interventions to understand and support acceptance of cellular meat and dairy products (PhD/EngD Liam Dwyer – WUR)
- Designing for Sustainability Transformations: the case of CellAg (PhD/EngD Sarah Kunze – WUR)
- Inclusive design of sustainable value chains in Cellular Agriculture (Juan David Lopez-Taborda – TU Delft)
- Life Cycle Assessment of integral platform processes in Cellular Agriculture (EngD project Theodoros Rizopoulos – TU Delft)
Verder zijn betrokken:
- John Posada Duque | TU Delft | Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Biotechnology&Society | Integral Sustainability for the Biobased Economy
- Lotte Asveld | TU Delft | Faculty of Technology Policy & Management / Faculty of Applied Science, Dept Biotechnology | Biotechnology&Society | Societal Aspects of Biotechnological Innovations – Responsible Research and Innovation for Biotechnology
- Arnout Fischer | WUR | Social Sciences | Marketing and Consumer Behaviour | Consumer behaviour in relation to new technologies and innovative products in food
- Bernice Bovenkerk | WUR | Social Sciences | Filosophy | (environmental) filosophy, animal ethics, animal wellfare, climate change
- Clemens Driessen | WUR | Environmental Sciences | Cultural Geography | (Bio)ethics, environmental philosophy, consumer/citizen responses, societal impacts and cultural dynamics, art and design
- Gemma Tacken | WUR | Wageningen Economic Research | Consumer Research | Market research
- Machiel Reinders | WUR | Wageningen Economic Research | Consumer Research | Consumer Behaviour and Marketing
- Marleen Onwezen | WUR | Wageningen Economic Research | Marketing and Consumer Behaviour | Social psychology
- Zoë Robaey | WUR | Social Sciences | Philosophy | Ethics of Technology