Biosciences Priorities for FY26
Energy
POC: Blake Simmons
- Developing new sustainable and viable products
- Enabling bioconversion of diverse feedstocks
- Discovering fundamentals in photosynthesis and beyond
Environment
POC: Susannah Tringe
- Uncovering molecular foundations for predictive ecology
- Building models to bridge the gap between lab and natural systems
- Accelerating environmental solutions with biology
Human Health
POC: Junko Yano
- Understanding biological processes vital to health
- Addressing environmental impacts on people
- Developing treatments and mitigations for biopreparedness
Transforming Biological Research
POC: Nigel Mouncey
- Advancing data science and computing for biology
- Growing next-generation omics and gene editing tools
- Developing hardware to support biology
- Advancing experimentation by integrating technologies
See Biosciences Area FY26 Priorities and FY26 Call for Proposals for additional information.
