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Collaborations and Partnerships
We welcome research, technology, and standards development collaborations. By leveraging our core capabilities, we aim to foster innovation and provide measurement assurance to biotech, healthcare, manufacturing, environmental health, and national security industries and stakeholders.
Our Partnering Approach
Collaborations with Scientists and Engineers – We partner with industry, other federal agencies, national metrology institutes (NMIs), academia, and standards organizations to accelerate the development, dissemination, and adoption of standards and technology for biotechnology applications.
Technologies and Tools – We leverage NIST's expertise in measurement science, standards development, and basic research to establish core technical capabilities that deliver robust measurement tools and novel technologies tailored to stakeholder needs.
International Standards Leadership – We lead and contribute to documentary standards across standards developing organizations (SDOs). Documentary standards establish consensus frameworks that ensure interoperability, enable rigorous comparison, support biomanufacturing, streamline regulatory approval, and promote commerce for emerging biotechnologies.
Partnering Mechanisms – We collaborate through interagency agreements, direct partnerships with industry and academia, technology licensing, joint publications, hosted workshops and leadership roles within global standards and metrology communities. (Click here for more information about NIST technology partnership opportunities.)