This week the FDA released a plan for fostering innovative science. It is entitled the “Strategic Plan for Regulatory Science,” and it focuses on the agency’s goal to enhance the processes for developing and evaluating new medical products and materials.

The strategic plan describes the agency’s intent to collaboratively enhance the process for developing and evaluating promising new products and novel materials from fields such as cell therapy, tissue engineering, genomics, personalized medicine, advanced computing, and information technology. It reportedly also underscores the agency’s emphasis on food safety.