FDA’s New Efforts to Advance Biotechnology Innovation

Posted on June 6, 2018 by FDA Voice

By: Scott Gottlieb, M.D., and Anna Abram

Scientific advances in biotechnology, such as genome editing and synthetic biology, hold enormous potential to improve human and animal health, animal welfare, and food security. And researchers and companies based in the United States helped pioneer these technologies. They position the U.S. as a global leader of this rapidly growing and highly promising field.