Tatton Consulting supported Nottingham-based CO2-to-protein biotechnology company Deep Branch in its successful application to ISCF Future food production systems, awarded £2,168,743 by Innovate UK for the project REACT-FIRST: Reduced Emission Aquaculture & Chicken Trial For Integrated, Responsible and Sustainable Transformation of CO2 into animal feed.
About the funded R&D project
Demand for animal protein is set to double by 2050, while feeding today’s livestock sustainably is already difficult. The REACT-FIRST consortium applies Deep Branch’s CO2-to-protein process to aquaculture and poultry feed, testing whether the resulting protein performs in real feeding trials rather than in principle.
Award details
- Total project grant: £2,168,743
- Of which to Deep Branch: £1,294,837
- Competition: ISCF Future food production systems
- Competition year: 2020/21
- Project: REACT-FIRST: Reduced Emission Aquaculture & Chicken Trial For Integrated, Responsible and Sustainable Transformation of CO2 into animal feed
- Sector: Industrial biotechnology / sustainable agriculture
- UKRI project record: Gateway to Research, project 48629
- Dataset: Innovate UK funded projects, published 10 August 2026
Tatton Consulting supported the competitive grant application. The award value, competition and project title are taken from UKRI’s published record for this project.
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