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Dr Adrian Woolfson ‘Designing Life with AI: Shaping a Resilient Commonwealth in the Age of Biological Innovation’

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Commonwealth Day 2026

Dr Adrian Woolfson

‘Designing Life with AI: Shaping a Resilient Commonwealth in the Age of Biological Innovation’

For the first time, humanity is learning how to design life itself - and the Commonwealth has a unique opportunity to ensure that this power is used responsibly, equitably, and for the benefit of all nations.

Theme of Commonwealth Day is Unlocking Opportunities for All

Commonwealth Day 2026 focuses on unlocking opportunities for all | Commonwealth

Adrian Woolfson was born in London, he studied medicine at Balliol College, Oxford, molecular genetics at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and was formerly the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, where he worked with Nobel Prize Winer César Milstein in the Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is the co-founder of Genyro, a California-based biotechnology company specialising in AI-augmented synthetic genome design and construction.  Adrian has published the critically acclaimed Life Without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics. He has authored over 160 scientific papers, book chapters, reviews, and patents, contributed to multiple publications including the Washington Post, Nature, The Spectator, The Literary Review, Prospect Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement,  London Review of Books, and Financial Times, and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Science magazine. He currently lives in San Francisco.

 

On The Future of Species 

Link for the book: https://bit.ly/49cPJKJ

 

 

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