Nutra Champions

Greg Macpherson, founder of New Zealand-based SRW Laboratories, believes new research will open a plethora of discoveries for reversing biological and physiological ageing.

Interior architecture and design-trained Yashna Garg did not expect herself to work in the science field, but a twist of fate led her into joining Zeon Lifesciences - one of India’s leading contract research and manufacturing organisations and even setting up her own nutraceutical company YuGap Wellness in September 2023.

Wellness and functionality are increasingly incorporated into food and beverages as well as the oral skincare space as companies seek to provide “value for money” products and tap on the first-mover advantage.

Thomas Sibel, co-founder of effervescent tablet vitamin brand VOOST sold to P&G in 2021, has set out to transform the supplements sector through his new venture Nordia Vitamins – a clean label vitamin brand focusing on powders.

Life-Space’s former CEO and founder Craig Silbery is making a return to the human biotics space as he seeks to make Australia a world-class site for manufacturing probiotics and postbiotics, he told our Nutrachampion podcast.

Singapore nutraceutical start-up NanoSG is honing up its AI avatar and online tools, as consumers are relying more on data and information to guide their purchase decision.

Singapore nutraceutical start-up NanoSG is honing up its AI avatar and online tools, as consumers are relying more on data and information to guide their purchase decision.

A Malaysia homegrown postbiotics company has set the ambitious goal of reducing the country's reliance on imports of overseas “biotics” raw materials, managing director of the firm told NutraIngredients-Asia in the latest episode of our Nutrachampion podcast.

A Malaysia homegrown postbiotics company has set the ambitious goal of reducing the country's reliance on imports of overseas “biotics” raw materials, managing director of the firm told NutraIngredients-Asia in the latest episode of our Nutrachampion podcast.

There are vast R&D opportunities in the botanical health supplements and therapeutics sector across Malaysia, where there is already a pool of over 3,000 local medicinal plants to be tapped on, says the CEO of local biopharma firm Medika Natura.