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BIO Statement on New Bill to Extend Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit

May 24 2012
BIO applauds Senator Robert Menendez for introducing the “The Extension of the Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit.”

Farmers See Economic and Environmental Benefits from Biotech Crops

May 22 2012
Seed technology is vital for developing country farmers.

Former Secretaries of the Treasury to Deliver Keynote at the 2012 BIO International Convention

May 21 2012
BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood will deliver state of the industry remarks.

BIO Testifies to House Agriculture Subcommittee That Farm Bill Energy Programs Are Working

May 18 2012
Farm Bill energy programs are working and BIO member companies are beginning to put steel in the ground,” BIO President & CEO Jim Greenwood said today in testimony to the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.

Panel of Top Industry Executives to Discuss Biotech and Big Pharma – What’s Next? – 2012 BIO International Convention Keynote

May 16 2012
BIO announced today that a panel of top industry executives will discuss where biotech will be in the next ten years and how the pharmaceutical industry landscape is changing.

IFIC Survey: Consumers Support Current Food Labeling Policies

May 10 2012
“Education is important to continue raising awareness, but simply labeling a food ‘Genetically Engineered’ or ‘GE’ doesn’t provide any meaningful information to consumers,” said Dr. Cathleen Enright, Executive Vice President, Food and Agriculture for BIO.

2012 BIO International Convention to Highlight the FDA and Regulatory Environment

May 9 2012
Global event for biotechnology to be held June 18-21, 2012 in Boston.

Consumer Acceptance, Genetically Engineered Agriculture Products and Biotech Crop Development to be the Focus at the 2012 BIO International Convention

May 1 2012
Global event for biotechnology to be held June 18-21, 2012 in Boston.

BIO Thanks Reps. Pascrell, Bilbray for Policy that Levels the Playing Field for Renewable Chemicals

Apr 27 2012
BIO thanks Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) and Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) for introducing legislation that reduces taxes for U.S. producers of renewable chemicals and clears the path for commercialization of homegrown renewable chemical technology.

Groups Ask Senators to Authorize DOE Funding for Interagency Project on Military Biofuel

Apr 27 2012
BIO and some of its partners wrote leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee asking them to include authorization for the U.S. Department of Energy to transfer funds necessary to DOE’s support of an interagency Defense Production Act project to ramp up production of military aviation and diesel fuels.