Vision:
- Innovation Engine For Health And Wellbeing Focused On Asian Phenotype
Mission:
- Elevate Singapore’s attractiveness as a regional innovation hub for FMCG and ingredient solutions companies
- Support national priorities in food resilience and healthy longevity
Strategy Pillar 1: Sustainable Value-Added Ingredients Innovation
Identify and develop value-added ingredients
- Ingredients for food, nutraceuticals & consumer care
- Enzymes and Bioactives
Leverage Precision and Biomass Fermentation
- Strain and pathway engineering of yeast, bacteria, fungi, etc.
- Fermentation and downstream process optimization
- Cultivated cell: lipids
- Scale-up
Strategy Pillar 2: Optimising Health and Wellbeing in Asian Phenotype
Reinvent food design for health and nutrition
- Food science and processing
- Prototyping and scale-up
Eating and Sensory Physiology
- Oral and sensory perception of Asians
- Gut-brain, mouth-brain axis
- Model consumer preferences and physiology in food designs
Digestive
Physiology
- Nutrition and digestive health:
- Experimental nutrition
- Virtual human modelling: Bioavailability, pharmacokinetics, In vitro digestion
- Gut microbiome
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