Research/Areas of Interest
cellular agriculture and cultivated meat
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Tufts Univ/Engineering, USA
- Bachelor of Science, Rice Univ, USA
Biography
Andrew Stout is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, where his research goals lie in the emerging fields of cellular agriculture and cultivated meat. As part of the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA), Dr. Stout is interested in engineering cell lines and culture systems for low-cost, large-scale bioproduction of agricultural commodities. He is particularly interested in the question of how bioprocess paradigms and cell line optimization can be re-thought when applying historically biomedical technologies to food applications.
Dr. Stout obtained his PhD from Tufts in 2022 through a New Harvest fellowship, then spent two years commercializing low-cost food-grade media ingredients for cultivated meat as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Tufts Cell Ag Commercialization Lab and CSO/Co-founder of the associated spin-out Deco Labs, Inc. Prior to this, Dr. Stout has worked in the field of cellular agriculture since 2013, including biomaterials research under Dr. Mark Post at Maastricht University and strain engineering for recombinant gelatin production at Geltor, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Materials Science from Rice University.
Dr. Stout obtained his PhD from Tufts in 2022 through a New Harvest fellowship, then spent two years commercializing low-cost food-grade media ingredients for cultivated meat as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Tufts Cell Ag Commercialization Lab and CSO/Co-founder of the associated spin-out Deco Labs, Inc. Prior to this, Dr. Stout has worked in the field of cellular agriculture since 2013, including biomaterials research under Dr. Mark Post at Maastricht University and strain engineering for recombinant gelatin production at Geltor, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Materials Science from Rice University.