Cellular agriculture seeks to advance tissue engineering for the production of affordable, nutritious, protein-rich foods. Researchers and manufacturers translate cellular agriculture research into food industry innovation that has positive environmental and societal benefits.
The interdisciplinary program is administered by the Department of Biomedical Engineering with collaboration from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.
With the field of cellular agriculture swiftly growing worldwide, our four course certificate trains skilled workers to advance research and commercial products in fields as varied as food science, biotechnology, tissue engineering, synthetic biology, biomedical engineering, and more.
Students learn to translate cellular agriculture research on sustainable alternatives to products like meat, eggs, dairy, and leather into food industry innovation and commercially-available products. Join a new generation of of researchers with an foundational education in the methodologies, context, and implications of cellular agriculture technology.
Cellular agriculture‚ the cultivation of agricultural commodities from cells rather than whole organisms‚ presents new solutions to the demand for the consumption of meat and other animal products. Established companies and start-ups across the globe currently face a shortage of skilled workers as they aim to commercialize cell-based meats, protein-based products, and novel materials, producing environmentally-friendly alternatives to products such as dairy, eggs, leather, and fur.
Among the first offerings of its kind in the U.S., Tufts' Certificate in Cellular Agriculture program trains students to excel in this emerging cross-disciplinary field. In classes taught by world-class faculty from Tufts School of Engineering, students learn the basic science that underlies products like cultured/in vitro meat. A Tufts education in cellular agriculture prepares students to contribute to worldwide improvements in food sustainability, food security, and personalized nutrition.
To apply, submit an application for the Certificate in Biomedical Engineering and indicate your interest in Cellular Agriculture.
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Research/Areas of Interest: biopolymer engineering, biomaterials, material science, tissue engineering, bioengineering, cellular agriculture
Research/Areas of Interest: membranes, polymer science, material science, separations, surface chemistry
Research/Areas of Interest: metabolic engineering, tissue engineering, systems biology
Research/Areas of Interest: Bioanalytical and Materials Chemistry. To solve outstanding problems in global health, the Mace Lab applies a multidisciplinary approach combining aspects of analytical chemistry, materials science, and engineering. The primary goal of the Mace lab is to develop low cost, patient-centric technologies that can improve access to healthcare. To achieve this, the Mace Lab designs devices that improve the self-collection of blood and enable the diagnosis of diseases in resource-limited settings, and they are exploring ways the methods that are developed in the lab can used by others. Their main techniques leverage the properties of paper and other porous materials to integrate function into simple, affordable devices. Unique to laboratories in Chemistry departments, his group specializes in handling human blood and saliva. Technologies developed in the Mace lab have made the leap to clinical sites in Africa, South America, and the US, owing to their network of clinical, academic, and industry collaborators. The Mace Lab has broad expertise in assay development and device prototyping, which they apply to evaluating the efficacy of candidate therapeutics, performing separations that lead to new measurements, and making field-deployable kits for point-of-care testing. They have additional expertise in instrument development, phase separation in systems of polymers, and microfluidics.
Research/Areas of Interest: synthetic biology, systems bioengineering, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, biofuels, biocatalysis
Research/Areas of Interest: K-12 engineering education, outreach development, learning through teaching
Research/Areas of Interest: Control of locomotion and the neural processes that organize sensory and motor information
Research/Areas of Interest: Ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Research/Areas of Interest: biomaterials, drug delivery, micro/nanofabrication, tissue engineering