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

研讨会将汇集学术界、工业界和政府的主要利益相关者，负责确定利用公共生物基础设施加速工程生物学的最佳方法，以应用于生物制造和其他加速生物经济和技术转化的手段。实现以生物为基础的经济的道路正在从概念过渡到具体的现实，人们认识到，公共生物铸造厂将在推动这种经济的技术方面发挥作用。该提案描述了对迅速加快生物技术商业化进程十分及时的活动。研讨会的最终结果应该是一份总结研讨会进程的报告，以及一系列关于调查人员和公共生物基地之间未来协调和合作的建议。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.