Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Patrick P. Rose, Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global, as well as Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense.
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is an organization within the United States Department of the Navy responsible for the science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Established by Congress in 1946, ONR’s mission is to plan, foster, and encourage scientific research to maintain future naval power and preserve national security.
The ONR carries out its mission through funding and collaboration with universities, other government laboratories, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and also oversees the Naval Research Laboratory, the corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps which conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development, and has a prestigious history, including the development of the first U.S. radar system, synthetic lubricants, and surveillance satellites.
On the life sciences front ONR has R&D going on in such areas as Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology, Cognitive Science for Human Machine Teaming, Gut Microbiology for Warfighter Resilience, and Synthetic Biology for Naval Applications including Environmental Surveillance and Synthetic Microbial Electronics.
Dr. Patrick Rose
Dr. Patrick P. Rose, is Science Director for Synthetic Biology at the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global), as well as Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute at United States Department of Defense (DoD).
Dr. Rose received his PhD in Molecular Microbiology, with a focus on Virology and Cancer, from Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, did post-doctoral work here in Philadelphia at University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured throughout academia and government on a range of themes including, but not limited to, bio-security, public health, domestic preparedness, pandemic and disaster response, and biological and chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction at various institutions including the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security, the National Defense University, and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies.
Dr. Rose joined ONR in 2016 and became the Program Manager, Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute in 2020 (previously known as the Synthetic Biology Manufacturing Innovation Institute) which is dedicated to a range of synthetic biology applications and specifically promises to scale up a new class of manufacturing that will provide the United States with domestic capabilities to manufacture critical resources and provide supply chain security.
Synthetic Biology, a field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities, has the potential to create entirely new classes of products with defense applications, such as chemicals and materials with advanced properties that could be used in austere environments for the war fighter, but also which may have dual use future commercial potential for innovations in food, agriculture, fuel, pharmaceuticals, and other consumer products, creating opportunities for U.S. manufacturers.
On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Rose about:
His background; how he became interested in science, in biology, and in molecular microbiology. A discussion of his career in biosecurity and preparedness. A general discussion about ONR and the current and future roles of synthetic biology across the ONR from health, to energy, to material sciences. An overview of the function / goals of the Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute. A discussion of important influencers and mentors over the course of his career.
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