Cathy Gwin
Senior Director, Communications
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.
A growing coalition of funders is stepping up to ensure that scientific innovation doesn’t come at the cost of safety and security. Representatives from influential, non-governmental funding organizations who advance critical life science research around the world met virtually on May 9, 2025 for the second Bio Funders Forum.
Executive Order 14292 on “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research" suggests some promising actions toward protecting modern bioscience and biotechnology against misuse. However, the order threatens to undermine U.S. capabilities to protect the American public from biological threats by requiring a pause in gain-of-function research.
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.
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