11. • 40,000 bioscience businesses
• 1.2 million direct jobs
• 5.8 million additional jobs
• $66,775 average annual wage
• $26,000 above private sector average
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13. 1. Bioproduction of sustainable chemicals, energy and other materials
2. Genetically modified crops to increase sustainable food production
3. Seawater bioprocesses to produce fuel and chemicals
4. Zero-waste bio-processing
5. Carbon dioxide as a raw material
6. Regenerative medicine to create new organs
7. Rapid & precise development and manufacturing of medicine & vaccines
8. Accurate, fast, cheap, and personalized diagnostics and prognostics
9. Biotech improvements to soil and water
10. Advanced healthcare through genome sequencing
14. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: biopharmaceuticals discovery
(CNS, cancer, cardiovascular, endocrine, immune); vaccines; antibodies; protein engineering.
Plant and Environment: transgenic plants and crops; bioremediation; microbial diversity; bio-monitoring;
photosynthetic microorganisms, cyanobacteria and microalgae.
Industrial and Manufacturing: bio-fuels; energy crops (cellulosic ethanol industry); industrial enzymes;
bioprocess engineering and optimization.
Medical Biotechnology: biopharmaceutical manufacturing; diagnostics; imaging; pharmacogenomics
(personalized medicine); microarray technology; biomarkers.
Regenerative Medicine: stem cells, gene therapy; tissue engineering; cell based therapy; cell cultivation.
Marine Biotechnology: EnvironmentApplications of Marine Biotechnology; Marine Natural Products;
Bioproducts and Bioactive Compounds; Marine Microbiology and Biodiversity; Marine-based Drug
Discovery & Development; Genomics and Proteomics of Marine Organisms; Aquatic Microbial Ecology.
Other areas: Food; Marine; Bio-safety; Systems Biology, Clinical Research/clinical trials; bioethics;
nanobiotechnology.