SynBioBeta Speaker

Yunyun Wang

Product Lead, Life Sciences

OpenAI

May 2026, SynBioBeta

Speaker

Yunyun leads product and research partnerships for Life Sciences at OpenAI, with the goal of building AI models to accelerate drug discovery and scientific research. She led the development of OpenAI’s biorisk safeguard systems to mitigate against model-assisted CBRN threat generation, including safety testing, threat research and model capability evaluations. Previously, she worked on AI governance, adversarial testing of generative AI, and privacy engineering at Google.

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Gilead Sciences

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Forbes

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LBNL

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Omri Amirav-Drory

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EverGlade

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Scripps, Aspen Neuro

Professor

Alison Snyder

Axios

Managing Editor

Alison Snyder

Axios

Managing Editor

Jason Kelly

Ginkgo Bioworks

Founder & CEO

Jason Kelly

Ginkgo Bioworks

Founder & CEO

Ron Weiss

MIT

Professor

Ron Weiss

MIT

Professor

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