Abstract

The White House has launched a plan to support the biotechnology and biomanufacturing industries with the goal of keeping biotech jobs and manufacturing in the US. In a Sept. 12 executive order , President Joe Biden directed several federal research agencies to submit reports to the White House detailing how biotechnology and biomanufacturing can address challenges in each agency’s particular sector. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services will look at the fields’ role in medical breakthroughs and health outcomes. Those reports will be used to create a plan for how the US can better support and invest in biotech. “The United States has relied too heavily on foreign materials and bioproduction, and our past off-shoring of critical industries, including biotechnology, threatens our ability to access materials like important chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients,” the White House says in a fact sheet about the initiative . The effort

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