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CMMC Call for Proposals: 2022 - 2023

The Cultivated Meat Modeling Consortium (CMMC) mission is to accelerate delivery of affordable high-quality cultivated meat products the consumer market demands. The members’ vision is to collaborate on development of computational modeling approaches the industry can use to optimize growth processes and product characteristics.

The Cultivated Meat Modeling Consortium creates project spaces where computer modeling experts, startups, suppliers and funders collaborate on computer models to advance the industry. The CMMC is requesting proposals for projects to be initiated as early as Q4 2022. The CMMC strongly encourages collaborations that enable problem solvers to serve the needs of specific commercial or non-commercial clients, where the solution approach is pre-competitive. By pre-competitive, we mean that once any confidential information is redacted the solution can be reapplied more broadly thus amplifying its impact.

All CMMC Members are eligible to apply. Anyone can join the CMMC. Contact grants@thecmmc.org for application information.

The deadline for submissions: November 1st, 2022

Topic Areas: While not limited to the following areas, projects will be given special consideration if they meet one of the following interest areas:

  • Projects addressing key challenges in cultivated meat bioreactor modeling, gene networks, scaffolding, or media formulation.

  • Projects in alignment with the prior work of the CMMC, extending CFD and agent-based modeling for bioreactors, or extend the value for these CMMC solutions via novel approaches, e.g. machine learning or artificial intelligence.

  • Projects with immediate translatability or output extending the capabilities of cultivated meat companies or researchers, including projects that significantly accelerate time to market.

  • Projects proposed or sponsored by institutional and/or commercial applicants, who can call on current networks to enroll additional stakeholders in the project. 

Project Evaluations

Projects will be evaluated based on the following factors:

Alignment of aims with the CMMC purpose to accelerate progress in cellular agriculture using computational models. (Scored 1-5)

Impact of the aims on advancing the purpose, typically by increasing insight or reducing experimental time or cost. (Scored 1-5)

Plan that is complete, detailed and transparent regarding risks and their mitigation (Scored 1-5)

Team that is committed to and fully capable of executing on the plan. (Scored 1-5)

Budget that is realistic and, where practical, leverages CMMC’s contribution with in-kind and non-CMMC dollar commitments. (Scored 1-5)

Duration: Projects can be of any duration, up to one year. If proposing a project that is one phase of a multi-year project, the deliverable must nonetheless provide interim value.  

Award: You may submit a proposal of any size up to $70,000. Proposals do not need to require funds; you may submit a proposal for any project where CMMC resources, for example community members, are needed. 

Support: 

The CMMC makes past and current project IP available to members to extend for non-commercial use.

If your project is accepted, the CMMC will publicize the award through its social network channels.


What happens to the IP? Project IP will be managed per the CMMC Membership Agreement. Generally (but not exclusively), the CMMC prioritizes work which is released for the benefit of the industry, and will make project executables and code-base available to CMMC Members via GitHub (if appropriate). These projects are typically free for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a special license, to be negotiated.