Tatton Consulting supported South Cambridgeshire-based livestock epigenomics company Antler Bio in its successful application to Better food for all – nutrition Early Stage, awarded £174,163 by Innovate UK for the project Improving the nutritional qualities and nationwide health benefits of milk via a novel, epigenomics-driven platform, EPIHERD, for UK dairy farmers. The total Innovate UK grant across all project partners was £422,345.
About the funded R&D project
This project applies Antler Bio’s EPIHERD epigenomics platform to the nutritional composition of milk rather than to herd productivity. If the same signals that predict yield also predict nutritional quality, dairy farmers gain a route to differentiate their output in a commodity market.
Award details
- Grant to Antler Bio: £174,163
- Total project grant (all partners): £422,345
- Competition: Better food for all – nutrition Early Stage
- Competition year: 2023/24
- Project: Improving the nutritional qualities and nationwide health benefits of milk via a novel, epigenomics-driven platform, EPIHERD, for UK dairy farmers
- Sector: Agritech / dairy nutrition
- Independent verification: Innovate UK funded projects transparency dataset (UKRI), published 10 August 2026
Tatton Consulting supported the competitive grant application. The award value, competition and project title are taken from Innovate UK’s published record of funded projects.
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