The U.S. National Science Foundation and partner agencies in the U.S., Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United Kingdom announced funding awards today in their Global Centers competition. One of the newly funded Global Centers, Reliable and Scalable Biofoundries for Biomanufacturing and Global Bioeconomy, includes researchers in the Agile BioFoundry.
Biofoundries stand to be as transformative to biotechnology as computers are to information technology. However, their wide adoption for biomanufacturing and global bioeconomy is hindered by the lack of standards and metrics in data, workflows, ontologies, and regulatory considerations. This project, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, leverages the expertise from seven biofoundries in the U.S., Finland, Japan, ROK, and the U.K. to address this challenge, opening the way to the full-scale adoption of biofoundry applications throughout society.
Read the full announcement and learn more about the project.