(Daily Daegu Gyeongbuk News = Reporter Kim Hyung-man) Gyeongsangbuk-do will be held from October 12 to 13 to lead the cell culture industry, the future food of Gyeongsangbuk-do, by sharing domestic and foreign cell culture-related industries, technologies, and policies, and establishing an industry-academia-research cooperation network. For two days until now, the ‘2022 International Symposium on Cell Culture’ was held at Yeungnam University Cheonma Art Center in collaboration with Uiseong-gun and Yeungnam University Cell Culture Research Center with 1,200 industry-academia-research experts from 4 countries in attendance. ( *Korea, Netherlands, Israel, Singapore)
This symposium, under the theme of ‘The present and future of cultured meat production technology and industry,’ is leading the cultured meat industry, which is rapidly emerging as a future food due to the global food crisis, carbon neutrality, and animal welfare issues. It is designed to promote exchange. (※ Cultured meat is edible meat raised by supplying nutrients to stem cells of livestock (cow, chicken, etc.))
First of all, on the first day, as a keynote speaker, Peter Yu, program manager of the Asia-Pacific Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC), presented the policies and technology development trends of leading countries in cultured meat and presented the cultured meat and cell cultured seafood industry. presented a vision for the future.
In addition, the symposium will share insights and insights on the future direction of the cultured meat project through presentations by scholars in the field of cell culture. Excellent projects such as cooperation programs and manpower training and discovery were introduced and development plans were discussed.
On the second day, domestic and foreign cultured meat development-related companies such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, Mosa Meat, Aleph farms, Neo Crema, Cheil Jedang, and Dana Green participated and introduced the latest technologies. There was a forum for exchange for ‘industry-academic cooperation for the creation of an ecosystem for the cultured meat industry’.
Then, in the general discussion, ‘obstacles and solutions for cultured meat industrialization’ were explored and directions were presented.
As proof of the keen interest in cultured meat, this event was attended by major domestic and foreign cultured meat startups and large companies that received investments from large corporations such as Daesang and Lotte.
The importance of localization of cell culture as an essential raw material for vaccines and pharmaceuticals is increasing, especially in developed countries such as the United States, Israel, and Singapore. Competition for child rearing development is intensifying.
Gyeongsangbuk-do has excellent cell culture technology infrastructure such as Yeungnam University, which has core cell culture technology, POSTECH (3D bioprinting), and Yeongcheon Center of the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology.
To secure new momentum in the cell culture industry based on these strengths, an international cell culture R&D town and cell culture and cultured meat production export complex where related industry-university research can be jointly researched, and strategically linked with Andong Pohang Biocluster We plan to focus on nurturing
Gyeongsangbuk-do Governor Kim Hak-hong said, “The province plans to foster the future food industry, such as cultured meat, as an axis of the Gyeongbuk bio industry along with the biopharmaceutical and vaccine industries. It is expected that this will be an opportunity to advance the policy and show the will of the provincial government.”
