Cathy Gwin
Senior Director, Communications
Students and early-career professionals from 19 countries across five continents entered the 2025 competition. The challenge called for innovative papers on how to define “biological weapons” in today’s ever evolving biothreat landscape.
At the UN General Assembly President Trump announced his administration’s intention to harness artificial intelligence to help uphold the international ban on biological weapons. Using advanced technology to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention is a promising step and an approach NTI has long supported.
NTI’s Global Biological Policy and Programs team will host two side events at the Sixth Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
NTI | bio hosts this competition to provide a platform for the next generation of global leaders in biosecurity to develop original concepts and share them with the wider biosecurity community.
During the fifth session of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Working Group meetings, NTI | bio presented solutions that could effectively reduce the risk of bioweapons development and use by states and other powerful actors.
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