Biosafety and biosecurity are two sides of the same coin. The more we integrate security thinking into day-to-day lab practices, whether in high-containment facilities or DNA synthesis workflows, the safer innovation becomes, said Luis Ochoa Carrera. This Consortium is an opportunity to turn shared principles into real-world safeguards that laboratories and companies everywhere can use.

Luis Ochoa Carrera brings more than two decades of global experience in biosafety, laboratory containment, and pandemic preparedness to the IBBIS Technical Consortium. As a High-Containment Senior Specialist of Michigan State University and Past President of ABSA International, he has been at the forefront of developing training programmes and standards that strengthen laboratory biosafety practices worldwide. His leadership in high-containment facility management and infectious disease risk mitigation has shaped international collaborations on biosafety, biorisk management, and emergency response.

Within the Consortium, Luis contributes his deep technical expertise in biosafety system design and operational risk management, helping ensure that DNA synthesis screening standards are not only robust but also practical and adaptable across diverse laboratory and regulatory environments.