The NBAF and the BIO international convention

Biosecurity is an important and high profile topic at BIO International Convention this year, complete with a dedicated “biosecurity zone” within the BIO exhibit hall and the first-ever, two-day Biosecurity Conference. The Kansas Bioscience Authority and Kansas State University are teaming up to showcase Kansas’ national biosecurity leadership with an exhibit in the biosecurity zone featuring K-State’s Biosecurity Research Institute, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center, and more.

Also at BIO, the KBA hosted an NBAF reception on Mon., May 3, with U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, KBA CEO Tom Thornton, K-State President Kirk Schulz, and Jamie Johnson of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This special event further built the national coalition advocating for accelerated research to protect the American food supply and agriculture economy.

Kansas is in Chicago at the largest international bioscience convention educating the world about the state’s tremendous infrastructure and expertise, which has been widely recognized and reinforced in the last 15 months by the NBAF selection; the relocation of the Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit to Kansas; and the designation of a $12 million animal disease research center of excellence at K-State to be led by KBA eminent scholar and Regents distinguished professor Dr. Juergen Richt.