EBRC Roadmap

The EBRC Roadmap is an attempt by members of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC) to lay out the challenges and opportunities facing the development of synthetic biology and other biological engineering technologies from 2020 to 2040. Divided into four technical sectors (Engineering DNA, Biomolecule Engineering, Host Engineering, and Data Science) and five application sectors (Industrial Biotechnology, Health and Medicine, Food and Agriculture, Environmental Biotechnology, and Energy), the EBRC roadmap summarizes the current state-of-the-art for different areas of biological engineering, lists technical obstacles that must be overcome, and sets estimates/goals for what the near-term (2-5 years) and long-term (10-20 year) capabilities of the technologies should be.