Nonprofit allots $3 million for cell- and plant-based product research

Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit group that works with scientists, investors and entrepreneurs to develop meat alternatives, announced the recipients of $3 million to fund their projects. Fourteen winners were whittled down from 66 submissions from 18 countries and will be funded through GFI’s inaugural Competitive Research Grant Program.The resulting research in critical areas of plant-based and cell-based meat R&D will be shared with the entire scientific community and “good food industry,” the organization said.“The tremendous potential for any one of these research projects to accelerate the plant-based or cell-based meat industry demonstrates the phenomenal impact of marshaling funding to this space,” GFI officials said.