Professor - Cellular Agriculture AY2026

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Description Tufts University invites applicants for tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level as part of a focused effort to further strengthen key research areas in cellular agriculture, including cultivated meat, alternative proteins, plant-based systems and related biotechnology approaches to next generation foods. While the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture's administrative home is situated in the School of Engineering's Biomedical Engineering Department, we are searching for a faculty member whose primary home will be in Chemistry or Biology . Candidates will be considered at all ranks. The anticipated start date is January 2026 or later. The positions will add to the University-wide programs on future foods and in particular the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA). Strengths in areas such as: new cell sources from cell culture of non-model systems, differentiation of specific cell lineages from animal stem cells, microbial-animal cell co-cultures to optimize growth and nutritional content, genetic stability of animal cells related to phenotypic factors, sensory and chemical analysis of cultivated and altern...