Industry, Academic Professionals Offer Advice for President Obama’s Bioeconomy Blueprint

Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
Insight & Intelligence™: Dec 15, 2011
by Alex Philippidis

The administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy received 134 submissions.

President Barack Obama’s administration has begun reviewing suggestions for a National Bioeconomy Blueprint detailing measures by which the Obama administration intends to apply biological research innovations toward national challenges that include health, food, energy, and the environment.

The administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) posted on its website that it received 134 submissions to a formal Request for Information (RFI) between October 7 and the December 6 deadline. In announcing the plan on September 16, the administration said the Blueprint would be developed by January 2012. A spokesman was unavailable Wednesday to confirm if that timeframe was still in effect.

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