News and Events
IBBIS hosts dual-use, bioethics, and synthesis screening workshop at IFBA Global Voices
Participants in Arusha, Tanzania, highighted the importance of communicating both the risks and benefits of dual-use research, and the urgency of regulating AI.
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January 21, 2025
IBBIS hosts inaugural Advisory Group meeting in Geneva
The IBBIS Advisory Group met in Geneva to discuss 2024 achievements, ongoing initiatives, and ambitious plans for 2025.
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January 20, 2025
IBBIS Hosts Side Event on Synthesis Screening and the Biological Weapons Convention
Synthesis screening is consistent with BWC obligations and has been highlighted as an important control measure by States Parties as far back as 2009.
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December 16, 2024
Safeguarding the Responsible Transition to a Biobased Economy
IBBIS, CEPI and WEF brought together over 30 innovators from across the biotechnology industry to discuss mitigating risks and fostering innovation.
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November 27, 2024
IBBIS Takes the Stage at the 2024 Paris Peace Forum
IBBIS celebrated the culmination of a year in the Paris Peace Forum Scale Up Program with a talk and poster presentation.
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November 11, 2024
IBBIS talks DNA synthesis screening at Dutch Biosecurity Knowledge Day
Exploring the biosecurity implications of the convergence of artificial intelligence and DNA synthesis
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November 7, 2024
IBBIS Leads Synthesis Screening Workshop at iGEM Responsibility Conference
IBBIS hosted a two-hour interactive workshop at the iGEM Responsibility Conference, including a predictions exercise, expert panel, and screening game.
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October 24, 2024
OECD Workshop on the governance of AI and SynBio convergence
IBBIS participated in an OECD forward-looking technology assessment exercise for these important dual-use capabilities
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October 22, 2024
Global Biofoundary Alliance annual meeting
IBBIS supports the Global Biofoundary Alliance in addressing biosecurity concerns through DNA synthesis screening
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October 11, 2024
Second IBBIS Foundation Council Meeting
The IBBIS Foundation Council held its second meeting in 2024 in Washington DC, USA
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September 23, 2024
Biosecurity Game Changers workshop
IBBIS welcomes a new Fellow and contributes to efforts to build next generation biosecurity expertise in Africa
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September 5, 2024
IBBIS Joins International Gene Synthesis Consortium
IBBIS is proud to announce its membership in the International Gene Synthesis Consortium.
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August 28, 2024