“Approved barely a month ago, the $30 million Living Foundries program should be sending out a request for proposals in the next few weeks and making awards several months from now. With its investment, over the next 3 years DARPA will support academic and corporate researchers for developing and applying an engineering framework to biology for biomanufacturing.”
Here’s a nice summary of the DARPA announcement made at the synthbio conference a few weeks back. Good to see the government funding agencies starting to pick up interest in synthbio and the practical uses of synthbio. The next 5 years should be quite interesting for those who are already doing synth bio. Also, big investments like this will get lots of students and post-docs flocking to synthbio, with a strong impact in 5-10 years. Yup. It’s gonna be great.
