On Wednesday 14 May 2025, Bureau Biosecurity will be organising the first international biosecurity symposium. Internationally renowned speakers will talk about biosecurity and dual-use.

As in previous years, the Biosecurity Knowledge Day attracted many enthusiastic participants this year. The Knowledge Day focused a lot on Artificial Intelligence.

During the Biosecurity Knowledge Day, the Biosecurity Escaperoom was launched. In the escaperoom, participants take on the challenge of solving a biosecurity scenario.

In the fall, several publications were published that are important for biosecurity. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI-bio) published a report on the management of risks of biodesign tools.

The Biosecurity Office regularly attends international meetings with the aim of sharing knowledge, acquiring knowledge, and networking.

We recently published the article Complementarity of International Instruments in the Field of Biosecurity in Frontiers in Public Health.

In a March 2022 paper in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from a US pharmaceutical company who were building artificial intelligence systems for virtual drug discovery issued a wake-up call

Do you have an overview of your parcels to be received at all times or do parcels sometimes get lost in your organization?

The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report in October containing the findings of an international horizon scan on dual-use research of concern (DURC) in the life sciences.

It was exciting until the last minute whether it could go ahead, but we are happy that we can look back on a successful Knowledge Day.