Our Mission To measurably advance and champion the life sciences across Missouri, by accelerating bioscience comprehension throughout the state’s elected leadership and citizenry by:

• Providing professional state governmental relations for biotechnology impacted healthcare and agriculture;
• Enabling world class research, scientific and technological innovation within a welcoming environment;
• Developing a superior work force; and
• Stimulating a favorable environment for business expansion, attraction and entrepreneurism.

Vision Statement
To establish credibility as a successful, sustainable organization capable of generating immediate progress in state policy, and building momentum to be one of the nation’s best-in-class state bioscience organizations.

About the Missouri Biotechnology Association

The Missouri Biotechnology Association (MOBIO) is a nonprofit trade association that serves all Missouri organizations interested in the life sciences. MOBIO is composed of a broad cross-section of companies, institutions of higher education, research organizations and related firms involved in research, development and commercialization of the life sciences. MOBIO members promote economic development in Missouri by supporting life science research and practical applications that benefit the general population.

MOBIO members are committed to expanding the frontiers of the biological and biomedical sciences through biotechnology research. A primary goal is to make new discoveries available to everyone. The conversion of scientific discoveries into products ("Development") and making them available ("Commercialization") is a lengthy process that requires substantial financial and intellectual resources. MOBIO is committed to helping entrepreneurs find the financial and intellectual "capital" needed to establish new companies and commercialize new products from life sciences research.

In addition, MOBIO is committed to enhancing the scholastic environment in Missouri classrooms through public/private partnerships with local and state-wide school boards. Our For Educators section provides curricula developed by local educators to teach K-12, and university students the fundamentals of biotechnology. We are also advancing educational development, and other improvements to the social and political arenas, through our legislative agenda.

MOBIO has assembled a dynamic and far-reaching group of entrepreneurs, educators, business professionals, and government officials. With MOBIO's leadership, Missourians can take the first steps in this new century to secure a sustainable and profitable future in biotechnology worthy of our next generation.