Shaping the future US bioeconomy through safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility

Aurelia Attal-Juncqua; Galen Dods; Nicole Crain; James Diggans; David Dodds; Steve Evans; Nick Fackler; Kevin Flyangolts; Kathleen Gibson; Margaret E Kosal; Aditya Kunjapur; Russ Read; Brian Renda; Corinne D Scown; Kissaou Tchedre; Krista Ternus; Beth Vitalis; Gigi Gronvall

doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.11.015

Shaping the future US bioeconomy through safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility

Trends Biotechnol. 2024 Jun;42(6):671-673. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.11.015. Epub 2023 Dec 20.

Authors

Aurelia Attal-Juncqua¹, Galen Dods², Nicole Crain³, James Diggans⁴, David Dodds⁵, Steve Evans², Nick Fackler⁶, Kevin Flyangolts⁷, Kathleen Gibson⁸, Margaret E Kosal⁹, Aditya Kunjapur¹⁰, Russ Read¹¹, Brian Renda¹², Corinne D Scown¹³, Kissaou Tchedre¹⁴, Krista Ternus¹⁵, Beth Vitalis¹⁶, Gigi Gronvall¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² BioMADE, Twin Cities, MN, Emeryville, CA, USA.
³ National Defense University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ Twist Bioscience, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ GALY Co., Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ LanzaTech Global Inc., Skokie, IL, USA.
⁷ Aclid Inc., New York, NY, USA.
⁸ Logistics Management Institute (LMI), Tysons, VA, USA.
⁹ Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
¹⁰ University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
¹¹ The National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
¹² Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, MA, USA.
¹³ University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Austin Community College, Austin, TX, USA.
¹⁵ Signature Science, Austin, TX, USA.
¹⁶ BioMADE, Twin Cities, MN, Emeryville, CA, USA. Electronic address: evitalis@biomade.org.
¹⁷ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: ggronvall@jhu.edu.

PMID: 38129216
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2023.11.015

Abstract

Biomanufacturing practitioners and researchers describe the norms that should govern the growing, global field, to include safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility. These '4S Principles' should be broadly adopted so that the future of the field may provide the greatest benefits to society.

Keywords: bioeconomy; safety; security; social responsibility; sustainability.

MeSH terms

Biotechnology* / economics
Biotechnology* / trends
Humans
Safety
Social Responsibility*
United States