Microbiome Interagency Working Group Releases Interagency Strategy Plan for Microbiome Research
In 2015, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) of the White House, chartered a committee of sixteen federal agencies that fund research to complete a survey of all federally supported microbiome research over fiscal years 2012-2014. The Fast-Track Action Committee on Mapping the Microbiome (FTAC-MM) analysis included studies of microbial communities and their ecological roles in plants, animals, and humans and in ecosystems like oceans and forests. The FTAC-MM identified an investment of $920M in both intramural and extramural microbiome research over fiscal years 2012-2014; this analysis was published in Nature Microbiology (Stulberg et al. 2016). This analysis motivated the establishment of an interagency committee, the Microbiome Interagency Working Group (MIWG), which is charged with coordination of microbiome research across the federal government. This report, the ‘Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research’, released April 19, 2018, summarizes each agency’s investments in this field, the range of current coordination activities and plans for future MIWG activities to support the needed resources for advancing this emerging field. The report also includes the representative from each agency who contributed to this report. […]
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