Brigid Barrick

Brigid Barrick is a third year undergrad at Tufts University studying Biomedical Engineering. Over the past two years, she has been conducting cellular agriculture research in the David Kaplan Laboratory under the guidance of PhD Candidate John Yuen. Brigid has assisted on projects involving the scaling up of in-vitro fat production, vascularization of skeletal muscle and fat in a perfusion bioreactor, and development of non-animal based scaffolds with increased binding ability. Brigid is interested in building upon cultured meat concepts in developing a low-cost, accessible method to produce whole cut cultured meat.

Brigid is co-authored with John and Dr. Kaplan on a review paper on adipose tissue engineering for food applications and is currently preparing a primary research paper on scalable cell-cultured fat tissue.

January 2022