2026 Industrial Biotech Innovation Challenge

Breakthrough biology exists. What’s missing is cost-competitive production, industrial integration, and real-world deployment. This challenge calls on innovators to close that gap. The Industrial Biotech Innovation Prize Challenge supports technologies that move beyond lab success into operational systems, advancing scalable production, reducing cost barriers, and enabling adoption across U.S. manufacturing and supply chains. Whether your work is in microbial systems, enzymatic processes, synthe...