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John Williams Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biotechnology is poised to enable entirely new manufacturing in the 21st century. The rapid advances in synthetic biology and genome-scale biology are powering new capabilities to make a range of products from basic chemicals to uniquely biologically-enabled products like tissues. Combining these 'front-end' technologies with emerging 'back-end' elements like continuous and integrated operations, automation, and AI/ML can enable new models for accessible biomanufacturing capacity. Growing new capabilities for biomanufacturing could transform the industrial base to enable circular bioeconomies that are both sustainable and prosperous.
Moderator: Steve Whittaker Program Director, MIT Industrial Liaison Program
Panelists: Ben Armstrong Executive Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center
J. Christopher Love Raymond A. (1921) and Helen E. St. Laurent Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Associate Member, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Faez Ahmed ABS Career Development Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bruce Lawler Managing Director, MIT Machine Intelligence for Manufacturing and Operations
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