Thailand's Synthetic Biology Strategy.

Synthetic biology in Thailand offers vast opportunities, from enhancing agriculture and food production to developing sustainable chemicals and biomaterials, advancing renewable energy and advancing pharmaceutical and healthcare services. Although Thailand ranks among the top 10 in Asia for biotechnology research output, it still faces several challenges. This includes insufficient and inconsistent research funding, limited development of new tools and technologies and a fragmented funding scheme. Thailand's ten-year engineering and synthetic biology strategy tackles these issues through three main components: creating a supportive ecosystem, strengthening knowledge foundations and enhancing industrial technological capabilities. The goal is to establish engineering and synthetic biology as a basis for innovative and high-value products and services, which would promote sustainable national growth.