SynBioBeta Speaker
Adrian Woolfson
President & CEO
Genyro
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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Adrian Woolfson is the co-founder of Genyro, a California-based biotechnology company specialising in AI-augmented synthetic genome design and construction. 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 author of the critically acclaimed Life Without Genes: The History and Future of Genomes, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics, and On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence. 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.
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