Hong Kong-based cultivated meat biotechnology startup Avant has inked a research collaboration agreement with Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) to develop solutions for the scalable production of cultivated fish cells.

The two parties will establish a joint research laboratory for cultivated fish bioprocessing in Biopolis, Singapore. They will tap BTI's expertise in animal cell bioprocessing and multi-omics analytical sciences and technologies to identify critical factors affecting cultivated fish cells' growth and improve production, they said. 

Avant has hired a team of scientists and engineers for the joint research laboratory. The firm has already applied to Singapore Food Agency to sell cell-cultivated meats and targets a launch for its pilot production of cultivated fish maw by 2022 [...]