If lawmakers fail to act, it'll derail the development of promising medical treatments and other cutting-edge technologies that begin here in Iowa, but impact the entire world. Guest columnist

Jessica Hyland is the executive director of the Iowa Biotechnology Association.

Our state's biosciences sector is thriving. It employs more than 28,000 people across 1,900 businesses. We're home to the nation's highest concentration of food scientists and employees in vaccine and immunotherapy biological manufacturing. And Iowa inventors have received roughly 2,500 bioscience-related patents in recent years.

But continued progress now depends on our congressional delegation working to renew the Small Business Innovation Research program, a federal initiative that helps small companies transform ea

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