Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
Michael J. Phillips, Executive Director for Food and Agriculture
The Biotechnology Industry Organization is the largest trade organization to serve and represent the biotechnology industry in the United States and internationally. BIO represents companies, academic institutions, and State biotechnology centers engaged in the development of products and services in the areas of biomedicine, diagnostics, agriculture, energy, and environmental and industrial applications. Prior to joining BIO in 1999, Michael J. Phillips was Director of the Board on Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences. Before that he was Director of the W.W. Kellogg Foundation program for Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Issues for the 21st Century. He was also Director…
