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Future (bio)made in Australia?
Dirk van der Kley, Dr Dan Santos and Daniel Pavlich propose an industrial biomanufacturing plan to enhance economic security in Australia.
  • Biotech
  • biotechnology
  • Quad
  • Sustainability
  • Climate Change
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Mon, 19 Aug 2024

Strengthening Australia's security through advanced biomanufacturing

Join us for an insightful webinar on how biomanufacturing could play a critical role in Australia’s economic security and national resilience.
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Ethical frameworks for deployment of Synthetic Biology in the Indo-Pacific
This report co-authored by Dir van der Kley lays out some framework propositions to govern Synthetic Biology ethics.
  • Synthetic biology
  • Biotech
  • Ethics
  • Indo-Pacific
  • biotechnology
The National Security Podcast
03 Apr 2025
The National Security Podcast

How global shocks, supply chains, and innovation impact food security

In this episode, Alison Bentley and Dirk van der Kley join David Andrews to share insights into the current state of food security, contemporary threats, and the need for research and innovation to ensure sustainable food systems. 

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INL scientist Yoshiko Fujita works with two colleagues. Image: Idaho National Laboratory

A strategy for Quad biotechnology collaboration
As part of the Quad Tech Network series, Dirk van der Kley and Daniel Pavlich discuss the importance of biotechnology as an area for Quad countries to collaborate.
  • Quad
  • biosecurity
  • biotechnology
  • International relations
  • Diplomacy
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Thu, 19 Sep 2024

Global launch: Ethical frameworks for Synthetic Biology in the Indo-Pacific

Join the launch of the report, 'Ethical frameworks for deployment of Synthetic Biology in the Indo-Pacific', co-authored by members of ANU, InKlude Labs in Bengaluru, and Western Sydney University.
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Shaping the Quad's DNA: how can Quad countries manage biotech's opportunities and risks?
As part of the Quad Tech Network series, Dirk van der Kley suggests that biotechnology is a lucrative emerging technology that the Quad should invest in.
  • biotechnology
  • Quad

The failing economics of biosecurity
Rhett Marchant and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Cultured meat narratives struggle because global food production is booming
Tom Campbell and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

What do Chinese biomanufacturing pilot facilities look like?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China’s little pharma firms are kicking ass. Could they catch the US?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China’s quest for food security is making inroads...except for pig feed
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

What does the US get wrong about Chinese biotechnology?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China's national mission to reimagine the bioreactor
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Biological bombs: an explainer of AI-tools for designing pathogens
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Policy tools have failed to liberate 2nd gen feedstocks in the US
Tom Campbell and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China Targets 36 Biomanufactured Products
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

The world is producing more food, but it is a mixed bag in terms of improving diets
Tom Campbell and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Biomanufacturing is central to China's next five year plan
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China's claim that new tariffs protect beef farmers don't stack up
Tom Campbell and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Will Trump halt, hinder or accelerate China’s march in the global chemical race?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

We have entered the era of biomanufacturing overcapacity
ZhouYi Wang and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

PRC fears dependence on US-led core biotech tools
ZhouYi Wang and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Olympics doping controversies show global bio governance failures
Dirk van der Kley | The Interpreter

The U.S. insists on self-destruction. Australia should fill its boots
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China aims to build 20 pilot scale biomanufacturing platforms by 2027
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Are Chinese (industrial) bio companies profitable?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Biomanufacturing under Trump
Tom Campbell and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China has a target list of 32 molecules to make from non-food biomass
ZhouYi Wang and Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

China’s non-food feedstock plan for biomanufacturing
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

What are the strategic parts of biotech?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Is BIOSECURE working?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Will bioindustry eat the world (literally)?
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Fertiliser nationalism: on the front lines of the urea wars
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl

Bio-based chemicals: China is in the lead but it is early days
Dirk van der Kley | Bio Brawl