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Project BOoST: A Biomanufacturing Test Facility Network for Bioprocess Optimization, Scaling, and Training

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the essential importance of biomanufacturing capabilities—extending to the geopolitical level—as well as the fragility of many supply chains and processes.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Technology Policy

Advancing the U.S. Bioindustrial Production Sector

The U.S. government should create a Bio for America Program Office (BAPO) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to house a suite of initiatives that would lead to the creation of more well-paying U.S.-based biomanufacturing jobs and more.

Education & Workforce

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Science Policy

Accelerating Bioindustry Through Research, Innovation, and Translation

Streamlined funding of open and cross-disciplinary research, prize and challenge mechanisms, and market shaping through innovative procurement have all proven highly effective in the face of market failures and applied technology gaps like those seen in our bioindustry.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Tilling the Federal SOIL for Transformative R&D: The Solution Oriented Innovation Liaison

Our innovation ecosystem needs more transformative research and engagement enterprises (TREEs), especially for societal challenges that have not historically benefitted from solution-oriented research.

Health & Life Sciences

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Pandemic Readiness Requires Bold Federal Financing for Vaccines

Getting ahead of the next pandemic is impossible without government financing.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Expanding Pathways for Career Research Scientists in Academia

Federal STEM-funding agencies — led by NSF and NIH, as the two largest sources of federal funding for academic research — should explore and pursue strategies for changing grant-funding incentives in ways that strengthen and elevate the role of the career research scientist in academia.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Putting Redlines in the Green: Economic Revitalization Through Innovative Neighborhood Markets

The Biden-Harris Administration can combat the impacts of redlining through a new place-based program called “Putting Redlines in the Green”.

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Creating the Make it in America Regional Challenge

The Biden Administration should create the Make it in America Regional Challenge (MIARC) to activate demand in underinvested regions with cluster-based techno-economic development efforts.

Health & Life Sciences

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Combating Bias in Medical Innovation

The Biden-Harris Administration must act to address bias in medical technology at the development, testing and regulation, and market-deployment and evaluation phases.