FAAB will be a highly collaborative, cross-discipline, cross-sector centre, with integrated and dynamic research and training programmes. FAAB will characterise complex bioactive products derived from foods, food-waste, and cell-based biotechnology (BioTech) processes to understand the molecular and inter-molecular basis for their efficacy, to establish characterisation protocols enabling their regulatory validation, and to enhance the performance of future product generations. The FAAB team is a network-partnership of academic and commercial scientists with the capability to deliver both a targeted training programme resulting in the next generation of cross-discipline cross-sector scientists who are ready to work in sophisticated regulatory environments and a research programme to produce complex profitable products.