Background
In 2019, the Synthetic Biology Consortium (SBC) was formed as a result from interest from Program Staff from 11 NIH Institutes/Centers and the Office of the NIH Director. The NIH SBC hosts an annual meeting that is open to the public. The annual meeting summaries and videos and other NIH led synthetic biology workshops are linked below under the Historical Synthetic Biology Workshops section.
Active Synthetic Biology Funding Opportunities
NOT-EB-23-002
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications
NOT-HL-24-037 (updated as of December 30, 2024)
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Bold New Bioengineering Research for Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Disorders and Diseases
RFA-OD-24-010
R03: Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science
Upcoming events
NCI: Synthetic and Systems Approaches to Interrogate Spatiotemporal Processes in Cancer
May 13, May 15, and May 20, 2025
Virtual workshops via WebEx
Details including dates and times
NIH Synthetic Biology Consortium Annual Meeting
Tentatively scheduled for November 2025. Bookmark this website for more information!
Historical Synthetic Biology Workshops
2024
Workshop on Synthetic Biology for Molecular Imaging in Cancer
Hosted by National Cancer Institute
2023
Synthetic Biology for Aging Workshop
Hosted by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering & National Institute on Aging
- Synthetic Biology for Aging Workshop
- Sessions and Breakout Room Videos
- Synthetic Biology for Aging Research Workshop Summary
2022
Synthetic Biology and New Directions for HLBS Application Virtual Workshop
Hosted by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Annual NIH SBC Meeting history video links:
2024: Connecting Clinical Users and Synthetic Biology Tool Makers for Biomedical Applications
Hosted by NIH Synthetic Biology Consortium
2023: Biomanufacturing and Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications (hybrid/in-person)
Hosted by NIH Synthetic Biology Consortium
2022: Control Theory and Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications (Virtual)
Hosted by NIH Synthetic Biology Consortium
4 separate breakout meeting with one main consortium meeting
- Breakout meeting 1 Response to the Pandemic and Opportunities for Synthetic Biology to Prepare and Recover from a Pandemic
- Breakout meeting 2 Control Theory, Toolkits and Modeling
- Breakout meeting 3 Engineering Biology Capabilities and Bottlenecks
- Breakout meeting 4 Scaling up Biocontrol Methods to Complex Biological Systems
- Main Synthetic Biology Consortium meeting video
2021: Synthetic Biology Technology Showcases (Virtual)
Hosted by NIH Synthetic Biology Consortium
2020: No meeting held
2019: First NIH Synthetic Biology Meeting! (In person)
Hosted by NIH Synthetic Biology Consortium
- Breakout sessions in Embryogenesis & Morphogenesis, Natural Products, Vaccine Development, Immunotherapy
- No recordings from this meeting