即使技术持续进步,疗法也可能始终比病原体更具优势,因为设计复杂的自我复制机器,比制造能够破坏它们的扳手更困难。在大流行或其他生物风险情景中,快速、灵活地研发疗法,是发挥这一防御优势的关键。
我们希望将这一理论优势转化为实际能力:
我们也可能接收希望从概念层面研究疗法在生物防御中的作用、或 AI 进步如何影响攻防平衡的研究员;也欢迎希望探索原型病原体或大流行前广谱疗法等具体技术机会的人。
我们特别关注肽类疗法,因为它具备多项可能适用于风险情景的特点。项目可以专门研究肽类,也可以更广泛地研究疗法。
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Sebastian Oehm is the co-founder and CEO of SynX Therapeutics, a biotech start-up developing non-natural peptides as next-generation medicines. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute, and a Research Fellow at RAND Europe. He was one of 38 scientists who first publicly warned of the risks from mirror life. Previously, he completed a PhD and postdoc at the MRC LMB / University of Cambridge, where his research focused on non-natural biology. He worked as a staffer in the German parliament, and earned a BA in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
Askar is Co-Founder of SynX Therapeutics, a London-based biotech start-up developing a rapid drug discovery platform for peptide therapeutics. His work spans synthetic biology technology development across drug discovery, medical countermeasures, and synthetic genomics. During his doctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Askar developed methods for megabase-scale DNA assembly and whole-genome synthesis of E. coli.
Askar has worked on policy questions related to biosecurity and the bioeconomy and contributes to EU medical countermeasure policy via DG HERA's Joint Industrial Cooperation Forum.
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