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

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铸造厂加速工程生物学、生物制造应用和其他加速生物经济和技术转化的最佳途径。实现以生物为基础的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。本提案描述了为迅速加速生物技术商业化而及时开展的活动。研讨会的最终结果应该是一份总结研讨会会议记录的报告，以及一套关于研究人员和公共生物工厂之间未来协调和合作的建议。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.