NIST Workshop on Standards for Microbiome Measurements

NIST is currently working with our stakeholder community to develop standards for microbiome measurements that will enable federal, academic and industry labs to reliably reproduce each other’s results and advance the overall field.

The workshop will focus on the need for standards to support the burgeoning biotech and pharma industries developing clinical applications that target the human microbiome. Informed regulatory decision making requires an understanding of the analytical performance of the assays being used to verify the identity, purity, potency and stability of these biomanufactured Live Biotherapeutic Products (LBPs).