CFPs: Functional Foods for Fostering High Performance Biomanufacturing under BioE3 Policy (India)

Priority Areas

• Functional Foods targeting chronic and difficult-to-manage disorders.
• Functional Foods for cognitive function and mental well-being.
• Functional Foods for inborn errors of metabolism, and mitochondrial and peroxisomal disorders

Categories

• Proposals should leverage cutting edge biomanufacturing approaches, such as precision fermentation for bioactive and probiotic production, targeted nutraceutical formulation, stabilization technologies, and scalable encapsulation or delivery systems, and will be supported under the following two categories:
  • Discovery & Application-oriented Integrated Network Research (Expected Outcome – TRL: 3-5):
    • Under this category, the proposals should focus on proof-of-concept development and applied research to validate the feasibility of innovative ideas and technologies for functional food biomanufacturing in the priority areas enumerated above and to evaluate their functionality, safety, and efficacy.
  • Bridging the Gaps for Scale-up: (Expected Outcomes – TRL: 5-8)
    • Under this category, proposals should focus on scaling validated technologies from the laboratory to pilot-scale levels or pre-commercial, focusing on efficiency, functionality, safety, and efficacy, as well as techno-economic viability and sustainability of functional food biomanufacturing in the priority areas enumerated above.

Eligibility Criteria

• Companies established under the Companies Act 2013 and Startups.
• The Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) incorporated under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008.
• Academic from various Institutions/Universities/Societies/Trusts/NGOs/Foundations/Voluntary Organizations, recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO).

For more information, visit BIRAC.