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.
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).
A statement by Jaime M. Yassif, PhD, vice president, NTI Global Biological Policy and Programs.
NTI | bio convened global experts for the 2025 Biosecurity Innovation Risk Reduction Initiative (BIRRI) meeting to discuss safeguarding rapidly advancing bioscience and biotechnology capabilities, focusing on three key areas: DNA synthesis screening, safeguarding AIxBio capabilities, and guarding against mirror life risks.
More than 35 leading experts highlight the risks posed by rapidly advancing capabilities at the convergence of AI and the life sciences and call on governments, industry, the scientific community, and funders to take action to safeguard this technology.
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