Bayer Consumer Health – Novel nutritional ingredients or experts in prenatal nutrition – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Bayer Consumer Health is seeking novel nutritional ingredients and/or experts in the field of prenatal nutrition.

Under Armour – Novel cushioning and thermal comfort solutions for athletic footwear – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Under Armour is seeking technologies that can deliver increased thermal comfort through better airflow across the foot while maintaining key properties in athletic footwear (energy return, compression set, weight). 

Bayer Consumer Health – Moisture resistant technologies and formulations for solid effervescent tablets – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Bayer Consumer Health is seeking alternative effervescent components and/or moisture barrier coatings for tablets used to deliver drugs or nutritional supplements.

Unilever – Nutritional interventions for telomere defense – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Unilever is seeking novel nutritional interventions, specifically ingredients or blends of ingredients suitable for dietary supplements, to help maintain optimal telomere length. 

Private Company – Antibodies for food safety lateral flow assays – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

The company is seeking collaborators with expertise in developing highly sensitive, specific, and robust antibodies for use in lateral flow assays. They are also looking for opportunities to buy or license antibodies that are already developed.

Unilever – Screening system to identify SGLT1, GLUT5 inhibitors and activators – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Unilever is seeking tools and screening capabilities to help understand the impact of different dietary ingredients on SGLT1 and GLUT5. 

Altium Packaging – Recyclable materials, additives, or coatings for monolayer barriers – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Altium is seeking a monolayer barrier solution that is compatible with their manufacturing assets (specifically the reciprocating screw blow molding machines used for EBM). 

Altium Packaging – Improvements to lightweight plastic bottle packaging – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Altium is seeking materials, additives, processing technologies, and design techniques to enable lighter weight packaging.

Altium Packaging – Bio-based resins and extrusion technologies for rigid plastic packaging applications – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Altium is seeking bio-based resins for plastic packaging and/or polymer extrusion tooling and extrusion technologies that effectively process bio-based resins. 

Altium Packaging – Mechanically recycled polymers that perform like virgin polymers – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

Altium is seeking to identify manufacturing methods and materials for PCR resins that offer significant improvement in molded product appearance, mechanical performance, and ease of process than current material available at scale.

General Mills – Making ice cream more resilient towards fluctuations in temperature – Deadline: Tue, Oct 31 

General Mills is seeking technologies to make ice cream more resilient towards temperature fluctuations in terms of textural and physical stability, without compromising the sensory experience. Potential solutions can include ingredients, processing, distribution, packaging, and storage.

Private Company – Novel approaches (long-duration) to chronic inflammatory skin conditions – Deadline: Thu, Nov 30 

We are seeking therapeutic approaches to chronic inflammatory skin conditions (e.g., atopic and allergic dermatitis) that can achieve long duration of modulated disease progression or severity.

Private Company – Genome editing with CRISPR in vegetable crops – Deadline: Thu, Nov 30 

We are seeking a single base genome editing with CRISPR in vegetable crops for known candidate genes.

BASF – Modeling plants to create a “digital twin” – Deadline: Thu, Nov 30 

We are seeking graph-based building and querying technologies that can be applied to model plants. We are also looking for methods to integrate data from different physiological levels and different conditions.

BASF – “Point-of-Care” tool for DNA/RNA detection – Deadline: Thu, Nov 30 

We are seeking new “point-of-care” tools for detection of DNA and/or RNA features in plant material for routine use in non-lab settings. 

Private Company – Caffeine Potentiation and Natural Caffeine Alternatives – Deadline: Thu, Nov 30 

We are seeking tools, collaboration, and subject matter expertise to help understand the effects of caffeine and nootropics on cognitive and energy related outcomes in the context of a caffeinated beverage.