The Cell Culture Media Market Overview 2025 report reveals that the market size has grown significantly over the past few years, with projections indicating further expansion.
The size of the cell culture media market has seen significant growth recently. It expanded from $5.46 billion in 2024 to $6.18 billion in 2025, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.3%.
By 2029, the cell culture media market size is projected to reach $10.07 billion, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.0%.
Download Your Free Sample of the 2025 Cell Culture Media Market Report and Uncover Key Trends Now!The key drivers in the cell culture media market are:
• Heightened focus on personalized medicine
• Expansion of stem cell research
• Growing adoption of organ-on-a-chip technology for drug testing and toxicity screening
• Increase in investment into life sciences research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities.
The cell culture media market covered in this report is segmented –
1) By Type: Liquid Media, Semi-Solid And Solid Media
2) By Product: Serum Free Media, Classical Media, Stem Cell Culture Media, Specialty Media, Chemically Defined Media, Other Cell Culture Media
3) By Application: Biopharmaceutical Production, Diagnostics, Drug Screening And Development, Tissue Engineering And Regenerative Medicine, Other Applications
4) By End User: Biotechnology And Pharmaceutical Industry, Academic Institute, Research Laboratory, Other End Users
The key trends in the cell culture media market are:
• A significant trend is the increased focus on personalized medicine and the expansion of stem cell research.
• The emergence and adoption of cell and gene therapies is shaping the market.
• The use of animal-free and chemically-defined cell culture media formulations is a growing trend.
• There is an integration trend of advanced cell culture systems incorporating microfluidics and bioreactor technologies.
Major companies in the cell culture media market are:
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
• Danaher Corporation
• Merck KGaA
• Becton Dickinson and Company
• Corning Incorporated
• Lonza Group AG
• Sartorius AG
• CYTIVA Lifesciences
• Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.
• STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
• Miltenyi Biotec
• Takara Bio
• MP Biomedicals
• FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific Inc.
• Promocell Inc.
• InSphero AG
• PeproTech Inc.
• HiMedia Laboratories Pvt. Ltd.
• Elabscience Biotechnology Inc.
• Capricorn Scientific GmbH
• CAISSON Laboratories Inc.
• Cell Biologics Inc.
• Nucleus Biologics LLC
North America was the largest region in the cell culture media market in 2024