Gary Abel is founder and principal scientist at Fourth Eon Bio, which is developing methods for adaptive biosecurity screening and function-based threat detection. He is also a contributing scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, supporting the Center’s work to understand and mitigate global biological risks from advanced AI. Previously he spent five years at Omniome and PacBio developing a DNA sequencing platform. His expertise spans biochemistry, molecular biophysics, and biosecurity, with nearly two decades studying how biomolecules behave and interact. Gary holds a BS in Physics from San Jose State University and a PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from the University of California Merced.