Due: June 26, 2026

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, synthetic biology, or industrial-scale bioprocessing, this is an opportunity to demonstrate solutions that can be built, scaled, and deployed.

Finalists will present live in front of industry leaders, investors, and government stakeholders focused on deployment, not just discovery.