The Business of Alt Protein: What founders need to know about M&A for mission-driven companies
Join GFI for a Business of Alt Protein webinar featuring a presentation from Tuck Advisors on mergers and acquisitions for mission driven companies.
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Advanced Atlantic halibut cell lines
Years active: 2025This project creates commercially-relevant halibut cell lines that are serum-free and suspension-adapted, supported by AI-guided media optimization.
Southern flounder muscle cell line
Years active: 2025This project will develop a southern flounder muscle cell line for cultivated seafood, optimized for suspension culture and serum-free media.
Removing metabolites for high-density cell growth
Years active: 2025This project will engineer a cow cell line that does not produce lactate and ammonia, the main growth inhibitory compounds produced by animal cells.
Plug-and-play cell engineering
Years active: 2025This project creates a new engineering system to add useful genes to cow cells, enabling cheaper, large-scale cultivated meat production.
On-chip lobster cell immortalization
Years active: 2025This project uses microfluidic chips and chaotic bioprinting to develop cell lines for safe, cruelty-free, and sustainable cultivated lobster meat.
Enhanced scalable bovine cell line
Years active: 2025This project combines a naturally muscle-enhancing bovine cell line with an engineered growth switch to make cultivated meat scalable and affordable.
Meaty taste = mushrooms + alliums
Years active: 2025This project uses mushrooms to brew natural flavors, making plant-based foods savory.
Single-cell protein from coconut meal
Years active: 2025This project will develop plant-based sausages using a protein-rich yeast biomass to improve taste, texture, nutrition, and overall quality.
Natural meat color with yeast
Years active: 2025This project will develop red-coloured yeast cells used to make plant-based products mimic whole-cut meat products (e.g., steak).
Scalable, accessible bovine fat cells
Years active: 2025This project engineers immortalized bovine fat cells for single-cell suspension growth and reduced metabolic waste in long-term serum-free cultures.
Upcycled bacterial cellulose
Years active: 2025This project optimizes bacterial cellulose production and formulation for plant-based protein foods.
Train the trainer: high school educator program
Explore the science, tools, and training needed to teach alternative proteins and food innovation in STEM classrooms.
The Science of Alt Protein: Nature and nurture—Cell lines and media
Discover opportunities for the convergent development of both cell lines and media for cultivated meat.
To FDA on labeling of plant-based meat, eggs, and dairy
GFI advocates for clear and simple labeling that would allow for the use of nomenclature consumers like and understand.
Communications Associate
Your work will help GFI APAC more effectively reach and engage scientists, policymakers, investors, and companies online and in-person, inspiring and empowering them to accelerate alternative protein progress across Asia Pacific.
Proposal Writing Workshop: Tips and tricks for securing alternative protein funding
Join our expert-led workshop designed to help U.S.-based researchers strengthen their ability to secure funding.
Feeding the future without feeding risk
Scaling protein production in ways that protect antibiotics, prevent disease, and nourish a growing world.
SynBioBeta 2026
Bruce Friedrich joins SynBioBeta to make the case for a new way of producing meat—one grounded in science, built for scale, and critical to the future of food.
The Science of Alt Protein: Transforming waste to fungal mycoprotein
Learn how Dr. Wang is developing a foundational biorefinery for converting food waste to fungal mycoprotein for practical food applications.
The Business of Alt Protein: Consumer taste preferences in dairy-free products
Join GFI for our next Business of Alt Protein webinar as we unveil insights from NECTAR's new Taste of the Industry 2026 report which benchmarks consumer taste preferences across the full dairy-free spectrum.
I ate lab-grown salmon. It was nothing like I expected
Profile of Wildtype, the company behind the world’s first FDA approved cultivated salmon.
Academic Research Challenge information session
Join an information session to learn more about the challenge topics and application requirements!
Academic Research Challenge information session
Join an information session to learn more about the challenge topics and application requirements!
The Business of Alt Protein: Messaging to drive consumer adoption of plant-based foods
Join CEO of People for Better Food, Emilie Fitch, and GFI’s Associate Director of Market Insights, Jody Kirchner, to explore new research on the messaging strategies that effectively resonate with consumers to increase consideration of plant-based meat — many of which are applicable across other plant-based categories.
A decade of impact: Let’s imagine more
Sheila VossMilestones on their own don’t mean much. It’s what they point toward that does.
Kristin McKee
Kristin McKee helps foster a positive and inclusive workplace culture where employees feel supported, engaged, and connected to GFI’s values and mission. Areas of expertise: People operations, organizational culture, employee experience and engagement, learning and development
Food system innovation is inseparable from water policy
Protein diversification can be a bridge between the two.
The Climate Challenge & Protein Diversification for the Global South
Food systems sit at the center of the climate challenge. This DC Climate Week session brings together development finance leaders, researchers, and industry experts to explore how diversified protein production can advance climate resilience, economic development, and food security across the Global South.
Building Your Alt Protein Career: Gastronomic science
Join us to learn how gastronomic science can be translated into high-impact food solutions.
The Future of Innovation, Sustainability, and the Law Symposium
GFI’s Madeline Cohen joins Northwestern Pritzker Law’s 2026 Animal Law Symposium for a timely conversation on the legal and policy questions shaping the future of food innovation.
Closing the taste gap, growing the category
How sensory performance is driving sales in plant-based dairy
Paul Bradley
Paul Bradley leads the Development Operations team in advancing the systems and strategy that power the organization’s fundraising efforts Areas of expertise: nonprofit revenue operations and strategy, fundraising analytics and pipeline management, cross-functional systems alignment, and development process design
China wants to dominate the future of food. And it might succeed.
GFI APAC's Ryan Huling penned an op-ed covering how China is leveraging alternative proteins to accomplish its plan for food security.
2026 Midwest Climate Summit Campuses as Climate Engines: Cutting Carbon and Building Resilience
Join us for a lively workshop on the levers campuses can pull right now—from food procurement to school design to climate-ready facilities.
State of the Industry downloads
Download one or all of our State of the Industry reports for expert analysis of the latest trends in cultivated, fermentation-derived, and plant-based meat.
