BBI Co-Director Dr Lucia Marucci gave evidence to the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee as part of their inquiry into engineering biology.
Lucia, Director of the EngBioCDT, spoke alongside Prof Tom Ellis (Imperial), following evidence from Prof Susan Rosser (Edinburgh), Prof Paul Freemont (Imperial) and Dr Carolina Grandellis (Earlham Institute). Evidence has also been given by Will Milligan, CEO of Bristol-based start up Extracellular.
The committee discussed timely opportunities presented by the confluence of advances in AI and modelling with bionics, some of the regulatory barriers to engineering biology innovations, and the scale up challenges faced by the UK’s engineering biology start ups.
The BBI and Policy Bristol will be submitting evidence to the Committee’s open call for evidence.