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Think Tank Launches Task Force on Biotech Competitiveness

The Center for a New American Security this week launched a Task Force on Biotechnology and American Competitiveness, which will convene government officials with experts from industry and academia to “respond to critical challenges at the nexus of U.S. national security and biotechnology,” CNAS said in an emailed news release. The group will recommend “actionable recommendations” to improve American competitiveness in the biotechnology landscape, including synthetic biology, pharmaceuticals and genomic editing. Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of homeland security, chairs the task force; Martijn Rasser, CNAS Technology and National Security Program director, is the executive director of the Task Force. CNAS said it will announce the groups’ members “at a later date.”