Vision:
- To become an innovation engine driven by biosolutions, advancing health and wellbeing in Asia
Mission:
- Sustain Singapore’s attractiveness as a regional innovation hub for FMCG and ingredient solutions companies
Strategy Pillar 1: Sustainable Value-Added Ingredients Innovation
Identify and develop value-added ingredients (e.g. proteins, flavors)
- Bioactivity and functional screening
- Adaptive and targeted evolution - Feedstock & ingredient innovation
Leverage Precision and Biomass Fermentation
- Strain and pathway engineering of yeast, bacteria, fungi, etc.
- Fermentation and downstream process optimization
- Cellular agriculture: cultivated lipids
- Scale-up
Strategy Pillar 2: Nutritional solutions and digestive health for Asians
Food and Sensory Science
- Food chemistry and matrix
- Mild processing (e.g. for clean label)
- Ingredient functionalization, screening and database
- Prototyping and scale-up e.g. joint lab with NURASA
- Model consumer preferences and physiology in food designs
- Gut-brain, mouth-brain axis
Digestive
Physiology
- Gut microbiome & nutrition – Understanding diet and bioactives on Asian nutrition (cohort studies)
- Digestive health through virtual human modelling (digestibility of ingredients, pregnancy and glucose management models)
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