Transforming Biomanufacturing to Empower the Bioeconomy
J. Christopher Love Raymond A. (1921) And Helen E. St. Laurent Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
Biomanufacturing will change the food we eat, energy we use, and how we cure diseases. It has the potential to drastically reduce our reliance on greenhouse gases. But there are enormous challenges to getting promising advances from labs to the market. Standing up a large-scale manufacturing facility can run to $2 billion, the field is full of regulatory hurdles, and workers need advanced training. We’ll look ahead at promising biomanufacturing solutions, and what it will take to scale them.