Policy & International Engagement
EBRC works to proactively engage on public policy issues that affect or are affected by the advancement of engineering biology. Through the Policy & International Engagement Working Group, EBRC serves as a focal point for international engagement, representing the U.S. engineering biology community in key international forums and processes. In the U.S., the group engages directly with government stakeholders to provide insight from the research base to promote the economic value of U.S. leadership in the field. Community engagement extends to the local level, to build awareness of research and economic activity and create supportive research environments. EBRC members have access to resources on approaches for effective engagement locally, nationally, and internationally.
Programs & Activities
Activities in Development
EBRC has a number of activities in development by the Policy & International Engagement Working Group. These activities and programs are currently in the information-gathering and organizational stages and we expect to roll them out soon. If you would like more information about these activities, or would like to contribute, please get in touch.
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Global Forum for Engineering Biology
EBRC is actively working with global leaders to facilitate an exchange of information on the nature and scope of engineering biology research worldwide.
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Working Group
Chair: Emma Frow
Staff Director: India Hook-Barnard
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Council Member
Chase Beisel
Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research
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Roel Bovenberg
DSM
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Matthew Chang
National University of Singapore
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James Diggans
Twist Bioscience Corporation
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John Dueber
University of California, Berkeley
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Steven Evans
Dow AgroSciences
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Emma Frow
Arizona State University
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Karmella Haynes
Emory University
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India Hook-Barnard
Engineering Biology Research Consortium
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Jussi Jantti
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
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Richard Johnson
Global Helix LLC
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Richard Kitney
Imperial College London
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Eric Klavins
University of Washington
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Nigel Mouncey
Joint Genome Institute
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Michelle O’Malley
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Ken Oye
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Megan Palmer
Stanford University
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Merja Penttilä
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
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Ryan Tappel
LanzaTech
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Tiffany Tsang
MITRE
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Keith Yamamoto
UCSF
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Policy News
- July 9, 2019
Entrepreneurial Scientist & Engineer Fellowship in Sustainable Foods
Purple Orange Ventures, an impact seed fund from Berlin, has just launched an Entrepreneurial Scientist & Engineer Fellowship Program in partnership with The Good Food Institute, New Harvest and Proveg to help accelerate the animal-free foodtech movement in Europe, UK, Israel, and Singapore. The program provides 120K EUR of equity-free grant funding and coaching for 12 months to support the initial research necessary for starting a truly impactful company in the space. The full program description is available at https://www.purpleorange.com/fellowship.
- May 8, 2019
Global Biofoundry Alliance Launches
A group of over 15 biofoundries from around the world came together in in Kobe, Japan to launch the Global Biofoundry Alliance. Read more about it in Nature Communications.
- February 16, 2019
U.S. FDA Proposed Rule
The U.S. FDA has issued a proposed rule on amending the definition of “biological product”. Comments on the proposed rule must be submitted by February 25, 2019. Federal Register.
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