培養肉未来創造コンソーシアム

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On March 29, 2023, the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University and 5 companies established the “Consortium for Future Innovation by Cultured Meat.” Subsequently, on May 8, 2024, ZACROS Corporation joined the initiative. The consortium is now being driven forward with six core member companies. The purpose of this consortium is to promote practical initiatives for the social implementation of 3D bioprinted cultured meat production technology. We aim to advance collaborative development across companies in areas such as the application of 3D bioprinting technology and the establishment of an integrated value chain covering production and distribution. Furthermore, to achieve widespread social adoption, we are also working on the development of large-scale culturing technology and the establishment of a stable cell production process, with the goal of commercializing cultured meat by 2031. As a platform for globally sharing our consortium’s activities, we participated in the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, which is sponsored by Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City. At this pavilion, we showed future automated cultured meat production and 3D bioprinted cultured meat, presenting cultured meat as one of the “Foods of the Future” that can reduce environmental impact and help address the global protein shortage. Through the activities of this consortium, we are committed to contributing to solutions for environmental and food-related challenges, promoting public health, and proposing a new vision for the future of food.