Convergence Accelerator Phase I: Accelerating the Bioeconomy: Transformation of Engineering Biology through Public Biofoundries

该研讨会将汇集来自学术界，工业界和政府的主要利益相关者，负责确定利用公共生物制品加速工程生物学的最佳方法，以及生物制造和其他加速生物经济和技术转化的方法。 实现生物基经济的道路正在从一个概念过渡到一个有形的现实，人们承认，公共生物铸造厂将在推动这种经济的技术方面发挥作用。本提案说明了迅速加速生物技术商业化的及时活动。研讨会的最终结果应该是一份总结研讨会程序的报告，其中沿着一套关于研究人员和公共生物制品厂之间未来协调和合作的建议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The workshop will bring together key stakeholder from academia, industry and government with the charge of identifying the best ways to leverage public biofoundries to accelerate engineering biology, towards applications in biomanufacturing and other means to accelerate the bioeconomy and technology translation. The road to achieving a bio-based economy is transitioning from a concept to a tangible reality and it is acknowledged that public bio-foundries would have a role in enabling the technology that would drive such an economy. This proposal describes activities that are timely for the rapid acceleration of the commercialization of biotechnology. The end result of the workshop should be a report summarizing the workshop proceedings along with a set of recommendations for future coordination and collaboration between investigators and public biofoundries.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.