NIST works with the broader stakeholder community to identify standards needed for biotechnology and biomanufacturing. NIST engages stakeholders through NIST-led consortia, partnerships and public workshops.
NIST supports and collaborates with the Standards Coordinating Body for Regenerative Medicine (SCB) that coordinates standards for regenerative medicine and advanced therapies and hosts a standards portal cataloguing existing standards.
NIST contributed to this Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC)-led effort to identify a variety of standards and metrics that are most needed to advance the global bioeconomy. The effort identified standards that are needed to enable scale-up capabilities, to improve reproducibility across batches and geographies and to enhance the performance of Microbial factories and bio-products. The workshop report is available from EBRC.
NIST regularly hosts public workshops that continuously identify standardization needs, gaps and opportunities. Selected recent workshops include: